US11194483B1
An example method of enriching a storage provider of a virtualized computing system with metadata managed by a container orchestrator executing in the virtualized computing system is described. The method includes detecting, by a metadata sync service executing as an extension of the container orchestrator, metadata that is included in a persistent volume-based (PV-based) object managed by the container orchestrator, the PV-based object referencing a persistent volume; and pushing, by the metadata sync service, the metadata to the storage provider to augment a storage volume object managed by the storage provider, the storage volume object referencing a storage volume backing the persistent volume.
US11194478B2
It is possible to reduce the latency attributable to memory protection in shared memory systems by performing access protection at a central Data Ownership Manager (DOM), rather than at distributed memory management units in the central processing unit (CPU) elements (CEs) responsible for parallel thread processing. In particular, the DOM may monitor read requests communicated over a data plane between the CEs and a memory controller, and perform access protection verification in parallel with the memory controller's generation of the data response. The DOM may be separate and distinct from both the CEs and the memory controller, and therefore may generally be able to make the access determination without interfering with data plane processing/generation of the read requests and data responses exchanged between the memory controller and the CEs.
US11194472B2
Techniques to update a trim parameter in non-volatile memory during either a manufacturing stage or a post-manufacturing stage are described. Trim parameters may be stored in a register located within the memory device that is inaccessible by a host device during a normal mode of operation. Post-manufacturing updates to trim parameters by the host device may be feasible by creating registers located within the memory device that are accessible to the host device to provide information regarding trim parameter setting updates. The memory device may read the information from the registers accessible to the host device to update trim parameters stored in the register inaccessible by the host device. In this manner, the host device may not have a direct access to the trim parameters but still be able to provide an update to the trim parameters by updating an entry of the registers accessible by the host device.
US11194463B2
Methods, systems, and media for presenting offset content are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: causing a first user interface to be presented in a first position on a display of a user device; receiving a user input that indicates that the first user interface is to be shifted; determining an offset for presentation of the first user interface; causing the first user interface to be presented in a second position based on the determined offset such that a portion of the first user interface is no longer visible when the first user interface is presented in the first position and such that a portion of the display is unused when the first user interface is presented in the second position; causing a second user interface that relates to content being presented in the first user interface to be presented within the portion of the display that is unused when the first user interface is presented in the second position; and in response to determining that a predetermined duration of time has elapsed, causing the first user interface to be presented in the first position and causing the second user interface to be removed.
US11194461B2
A system and method for performing image scrolling are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for image scrolling determines the scroll rate for image scrolling. The scroll rate is based on selection of a scroll rate range, through a user input device, and is further based on movement indicated by the user input device. The system writes a sequence of images from the image cache to the frame buffer for image scrolling on the display at the determined scroll rate.
US11194455B1
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for health applications. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing health and safety features on an electronic device are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing the setup of a health feature on an electronic device are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing background health measurements on an electronic device are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing a biometric measurement taken using an electronic device are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for providing results for captured health information on an electronic device are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing background health measurements on an electronic device are described.
US11194454B2
A method for presenting content items includes receiving, by a user device, a request for a video item hosted by a content platform, and providing a graphical user interface comprising a first portion having a media player to playback the requested video item, a second portion to display additional content items, and a third portion displaying a list of the additional content items. The requested video item comprises a plurality of portions, each associated with a corresponding additional content item. The method further includes responsive to the media player beginning to playback a first portion of the requested video item, causing the second GUI portion to display a corresponding additional content item without an interaction of the user, and in response to a user selection of an additional content item in the third GUI portion, automatically updating playback of the video item to correspond to the selected additional content item.
US11194450B2
Methods and systems are described for creating and/or processing a definition for a dashboard with manually input code and user selections in a graphical user interface. In some implementations, user interface elements are displayed and selections from a user accepted. Responsive to the selections, definitions for one or more visualizations and datasources are automatically generated and displayed in a user interface element that accepts manually input customizations and code from the user. The resulting combination of code and definitions is stored as a definition for the dashboard, which when processed will transform data received from the at least one of the datasources, combine the transformed data with data from another of the datasources, and cause the display of a visualization based on the combined data.
US11194446B2
Described are embodiments for displaying groups of communications, such as messages, as a conversation. Conversations are groups of communications that can be traced back as related to an original communication. The embodiments allow a user to select a conversation mode for displaying communications, e.g., messages, as conversations. In response to the user's selection, embodiments provide for displaying a graphical element associated with a conversation. The graphical element can be selected to display the messages associated with the conversation. Additionally, embodiments provide for selecting a conversation and applying actions to the conversation, resulting in the application of the action to the messages that are associated with the conversation.
US11194443B2
Systems and methods for dispensing compositions, such as beverages, are provided. A beverage dispenser may be configured to receive input corresponding to a selection of a beverage, and in response, a graphical representation of the beverage at a display device. The beverage dispenser may receive additional input corresponding to an adjustment of an amount of an ingredient of the selected beverage, and in response, the graphical representation of the beverage may be updated. The graphical representation of the beverage may include graphics depicting the beverage container, the volume of liquid in the beverage container, and the adjusted ingredient.
US11194442B1
Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for supporting reading at work are described. This includes, detecting the selection of one or more items in an electronic document library of items comprising docs and doc sets; in response to detecting the selection of two or more items in the electronic document library: saving in the electronic document library a doc set comprising links to each selected item, and displaying adjacent to a doc display area tab icons linked to each selected item; detecting the selection of a tab icon; in response to detecting the selection of a tab icon linked to a doc: displaying the doc in the doc display area.
US11194437B2
There is provided an information processing device including a user information management unit that sets a user in a window in which an operation screen of an application is displayed and grants at least one of execution authority of the application set in the window according to the user and browsing authority of content in the window to the window.
US11194435B2
A detection substrate and a display device are disclosed. The detection substrate includes an outer detection electrode and an inner detection electrode on a base substrate and insulated from each other. The outer detection electrode has a hollowed portion, and the hollowed portion corresponds to the inner detection electrode. The inner detection electrode includes a body portion and a plurality of protrusion portions protruding from the body portion and extending in directions away from the body portion. The edge of the hollowed portion includes a curved portion, an orthographic projection of the curved portion on the base substrate protrudes into a region between orthographic projections of at least two adjacent protrusion portions of the plurality of protrusion portions on the base substrate, a portion of the orthographic projection of the curved portion is closer to an orthographic projection of the body portion on the base substrate.
US11194434B2
An input device includes a plurality of first transparent electrodes, a plurality of second transparent electrodes, coupling portions each electrically connecting two adjacent second transparent electrodes of the second transparent electrodes, and bridge portions each electrically connecting two adjacent first transparent electrodes of the first transparent electrodes. The first and second transparent electrodes are arranged in directions orthogonal to each other and are formed of a material containing conductive nanowires. The bridge portions each include a bridge wiring part, an insulating layer, and a buffer layer. The buffer layer is disposed between each of the coupling portions and the insulating layer. The buffer layer is formed of a light-transmissive, inorganic oxide-based material.
US11194432B2
A display device includes: a base layer including a display area and a non-display area; a circuit element layer disposed on the base layer; a display element layer disposed on the circuit element layer; a plurality of signal pads disposed on the base layer, wherein the plurality of signal pads are spaced a predetermined interval from each other, and are electrically connected to the circuit element layer; and an input sensing layer including a conductive layer and an input insulation layer, wherein the conductive layer is disposed on the display element layer, and the input insulation layer covers the conductive layer and a portion of each of the signal pads. Each of the signal pads includes a first pad portion and a second pad portion, wherein the first pad portion overlaps the input insulation layer, and the second pad portion does not overlap the input insulation layer.
US11194426B2
A polymer foam adhesive tape including: a substrate film; a polymer foam layer provided on one surface of the substrate film; a first adhesive layer provided on the polymer foam layer; and a second adhesive layer provided on the other surface of the substrate film, in which the polymer foam adhesive tape has a minimum compression load of 30 g to 300 g, a compression rate of the polymer foam adhesive tape is increased in proportion to a linear function according to an increase in pressure when pressure, which is equal to or more than the minimum compression load, is applied, and a thickness recovery rate of the polymer foam adhesive tape after pressure is removed is increased in proportion to a linear function as time passes.
US11194425B2
A method for responding to a touch operation is provided, relating to the field of human-computer interaction. The method includes the following. The touch operation on a touch screen is received. Determine an operation area where the touch operation occurs, where the touch screen includes a first operation area and a second operation area, and the operation area is at least one of the first operation area and the second operation area. Determine an operation type of the touch operation. Determine whether to respond to the touch operation according to the operation area and the operation type.
US11194424B2
The driving apparatus for driving a touch display panel includes a first voltage generating circuit configured to generate a common reference voltage, a second voltage generating circuit configured to generate a touch driving signal, and a control circuit configured to generate a switching signal. The switching signal is at the first voltage level during display periods for providing the common reference voltage to the touch display panel. The switching signal is at the second voltage level during touch periods for providing the touch driving signal to the touch display panel. A first touch display period includes a first display period a first touch period adjacent to the first display period. A second touch display period includes a second display period and a second touch period adjacent to the second display period. The first touch display period and the second touch display period are different in time length.
US11194423B2
A system and method for autonomously scanning a sensor panel device is disclosed. A sensor panel processor can be disabled after a first predetermined amount of time has elapsed without the sensor panel device sensing any events. One or more system clocks can also be disabled to conserve power. While the processor and one or more system clocks are disabled, the sensor panel device can periodically autonomously scan the sensor panel for touch activity. If one or more results from the autonomous scans exceed a threshold, the sensor panel device re-enables the processor and one or more clocks to actively scan the sensor panel. If the threshold is not exceeded, the sensor panel device continues to periodically autonomously scan the sensor panel without intervention from the processor. The sensor panel device can periodically perform calibration functions to account for any drift that may be present in the system.
US11194419B2
A touch sensor display device and an interface method thereof are provided. The touch sensor display device comprises a display panel in which a touch panel, gate lines, data lines, sensing lines, and subpixels are disposed; a gate driver circuit drives the gate lines; a data driver circuit drives the data lines; a touchscreen driver circuit drives the sensing lines, and includes a sleep module which controls switching to a sleep mode, and a wake-up module which performs a wake-up function to cancel and return to a normal state, and transmitting a sleep mode signal pattern or a wake-up signal pattern to the micro control unit; and a micro control unit determining whether a touch is detected, by the touchscreen driver circuit. Accordingly, power consumption is reduced in the display device. A mode change is performed by a driver circuit to enable rapid mode changes while reducing power consumption.
US11194418B2
The present disclosure relates a touch display screen and a mobile terminal. The touch display screen provided by exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure can include a substrate, a touch electrode, a touch trace, and an antenna assembly. The touch electrode and the touch trace cover the substrate. The touch trace is connected to the touch electrode. The antenna assembly is also arranged on the substrate and spaced apart from the touch trace by a preset distance.
US11194399B2
Systems and methods for assisting a user to hail a vehicle using a gesture or application. In one aspect, when a vehicle detects a user hails it with a gesture, it calculates a route and moves to the user autonomously. In another aspect, after a vehicle receives a message from a remote facility, it starts searching for a user nearby and moves to the user autonomously when the user hails it via a gesture or application.
US11194395B2
A display device includes a display panel, and a plurality of piezoelectric elements arranged on one surface of the display panel, wherein each of the plurality of piezoelectric elements includes a pressure sensor configured to detect pressure applied to a surface opposite to the one surface of the display panel, and a haptic device configured to generate vibration according to a driving voltage.
US11194391B2
The present disclosure relates to electronic devices that include displays that show dynamic foveated content. For example, portions of the content may be shown in different resolutions on different areas of the display based on a user's gaze that can be monitored with an eye tracker. Based on eye tracking data collected by the eye tracker, a processor of the electronic device may stop or slow the transmission of pixel data associated with one or more frames of the content. Additionally, the processor may generate pixel data such that the display may gradually transition from employing dynamic foveation to employing static foveation.
US11194388B2
A visibility improvement method using gaze tracking includes detecting a gaze of a user using a camera; determining a focus object at which the user gazes from among at least one object viewed through a display unit of an electronic device; and displaying, on the display unit, an image with high visibility that corresponds to the focus object and has higher visibility than the focus object.
US11194384B2
Circuit and method for reducing use of battery power during suspend mode operation of a computing device. Output impedance circuitry coupled to voltage regulation circuitry produces a feedback voltage and converts an output signal, produced in response to an input voltage and the feedback voltage, to an output voltage. A portion of the impedance of the output impedance circuitry is altered by control circuitry in response to a control signal, thereby causing changes in the feedback voltage, the output signal and the output voltage.
US11194369B2
The present invention is aiming at providing a communication apparatus that is lower in power consumption and that can detect a change in surrounding environment and send out information indicating the detection result, and a method to detect a change in surrounding environment. A communication apparatus of the present invention includes: a member containing a functional dye material that changes an optical property thereof in accordance with a change in surrounding environment and that maintains a post-change optical property; an optical sensor having a light-receiving portion and disposed such that the light-receiving portion receives light that has passed through the member, the optical sensor detecting a luminance of light that is received by the light-receiving portion; and a communication control unit that transmits information indicating the luminance detected by the optical sensor.
US11194367B2
In the foldable device according to the present invention, the inner wall surface of a hinge section forms a part of the side surface of a columnar space that has a cross-section having an arc with a radius R0. When a first unit and a second unit are connected to each other in an open state by means of the hinge section, a flexible cable forms an arc with a radius R1 that is substantially equal to the radius R0.
US11194348B2
The present invention provides a management system for autonomous unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) fleet management for harvesting or diluting fruits, and a computerized method for optimal harvesting using a UAV fleet.
US11194342B2
A robot lawnmower includes a body and a drive system carried by the body and configured to maneuver the robot across a lawn. The robot also includes a grass cutter and a swath edge detector, both carried by the body. The swath edge detector is configured to detect a swath edge between cut and uncut grass while the drive system maneuvers the robot across the lawn while following a detected swath edge. The swath edge detector includes a calibrator that monitors uncut grass for calibration of the swath edge detector. In some examples, the calibrator comprises a second swath edge detector.
US11194339B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining and correcting autonomous transport imbalances. A transport vehicle operates over a route. A fixture plate is coupled to the transport vehicle by a joint to carry a payload. A sensor determines a position of the joint. A controller modifies the operation of the transport vehicle in response to a change in the position of the joint to correct imbalances.
US11194337B2
Disclosed are a goods sorting system and method. The system includes a control server, a delivery robot, and a first carrying robot. The control server is configured to determine a delivery port according to a road direction of goods to be delivered, allocate the delivery robot, plan a traveling route for the delivery robot, generate a delivery instruction and send the delivery instruction to the delivery robot. The delivery robot is configured to travel to the delivery port, deliver the goods to be delivered to the delivery port. The control server is further configured to: when the number of goods collected in a target goods collection container below the delivery port is greater than or equal to a preset threshold, allocated the first carrying robot, plan a traveling route for the first carrying robot, generate a carrying instruction and send the carrying instruction to the first carrying robot. The first carrying robot is configured to travel to the target goods collection container according to the traveling route, carry the target goods collection container to a goods collection station. Further disclosed is a server and a storage medium.
US11194333B2
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for operating a watercraft vessel. The system can include a communication unit configured to receive a position signal and a velocity signal of the first vessel. The system can include a first sensing unit configured to determine a relative position signal of one or more nearby vessels including the first vessel, a second sensing unit configured to detect and measure a fluid velocity field of a vortex around the watercraft vessel, and a third sensing unit configured to detect and measure an efficiency gain from a lifting force experienced by watercraft vessel operating in an upwash region of the vortex. And the system can include a control unit configured to maneuver the watercraft vessel from a first position to an optimum position.
US11194330B1
Described is an audio classification system for classifying audio signals. In operation, the system extracts salient patches from an intensity spectrogram of an audio signal. Thereafter, multi-scale global average pooling (GAP) features are extracted for all salient patches. The GAP features are clustered, with each cluster becoming a key attribute. A test audio signal can then be mapped onto a histogram of key attributes. Based on the histogram, the test audio signal can then be classified as a sound class, allowing for operation of a device based on the classification of the sound class.
US11194329B2
Apparatuses, computer programs and methods are provided. A first method includes responding to user input, at a wearable user input device, by causing transmission of a radio frequency signal includes a request from a pedestrian wearer of the wearable user input device. The request may be a request to cross a road. A second method includes responding to the user input, provided by the pedestrian wearer of the wearable user input device, by causing motion of a vehicle to change. The motion of the vehicle may be changed in order to enable the pedestrian to cross the road.
US11194326B2
A vehicle control system includes a first detection unit configured to detect an operation of a driving operation element by an occupant, a second detection unit configured to detect a direction of a face or a line of sight of the occupant, and a switching control unit configured to switch an automatic driving mode executed by an automatic driving control unit to one of a plurality of automatic driving modes including a first automatic driving mode and a second automatic driving mode. The switching control unit sets a condition for executing the first automatic driving mode, and sets a condition for executing the second automatic driving mode.
US11194325B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle and a fail-safe method thereof are provided. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes at least one actuator, a failure processing circuit, and a flight controller. The actuator is configured to drive the flight behavior of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The failure processing circuit is configured to: define a corresponding relationship between the multiple failure states and the multiple protection measures, wherein each protection measure is respectively defined with a priority level and each protection measure is used to correspondingly change the flight behavior of the unmanned aerial vehicle; determine multiple current failure states when the flight behavior takes place; and select, according to the corresponding relationship, the selected protection measure having the highest priority level among the protection measures corresponding to the current failure state. The flight controller is used to change the flight behavior of the unmanned aerial vehicle according to the selected protection measures.
US11194324B2
A monitor ECU 10 performs a support control based on a camera image photographed through a protection window by a camera 21. The ECU determines that a protection window state is an entire dirt state, when a first area index value calculated based on edge strength of pixels in a first area including a center of the camera image is smaller than a threshold dirt value. The ECU determines that the entire dirt state ends, when at least one of a first condition or a second condition is established. The first condition is established when the first area index value is equal to or greater than a first threshold end value. The second condition is established when a second area index value calculated based on the edge strength in a second area except the first area is equal to or greater than a second threshold end value.
US11194322B2
A method for monitoring equipment and gathering consumption and diagnostic information can comprise receiving, at a server, a corrugate usage indicator. The corrugate usage indicator can comprise information relating to an amount of corrugate used by a first packaging system. The method can also comprise creating a usage profile for the first packaging system. The usage profile can comprise a corrugate usage profile. The corrugate usage profile can comprise an association between the amount of corrugate used by the first packaging system and the specifications and number of boxes created. Additionally, the method can comprise automatically generating, based upon the corrugate usage profile, a predicted time when a stock of corrugate associated with the first packaging system will be depleted.
US11194319B2
Monitoring systems for data collection in a vehicle steering system include a vehicle steering system comprising a rack, a pinion, and a steering column; a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to at least one of a plurality of input sensors, each of the plurality of input sensors operationally coupled to the rack, the pinion, or the steering column, and communicatively coupled to the data acquisition circuit; a signal evaluation circuit comprising: a timer circuit structured to generate at least one timing signal; and a phase detection circuit structured to determine a relative phase difference between at least one of the plurality of detection values and the at least one timing signal from the timer circuit; and a response circuit structured to perform at least one operation in response to the relative phase difference.
US11194316B2
A robot controller and a robot control method, by which a human can be prevented from being sandwiched between a collaborative robot and a workpiece conveyed by a conveyor. The robot controller controls the robot configured to perform a predetermined operation for the workpiece conveyed by a convey section moving in a convey direction. The robot controller has: a receive section configured to receive a signal representing that an abnormality of the robot is detected or contact against the robot is detected; and a motion control section configured to control a motion of robot so that, after the receive section receives the signal, a minimum distance between a movable section of the robot and the workpiece is not less than a predetermined safe distance.
US11194315B2
The present invention is directed to managing a process in a factory while employing a communication method suitable to various kinds of data that should be transmitted. A wireless communication apparatus configured to manage a process in a factory includes an interface connected to a device and usable to receive data from the device, a first wireless communication portion, a second wireless communication portion, and a controller configured to, to wirelessly transmit the data received via the interface, select one of the first wireless communication portion and the second wireless communication portion according to this data. The first wireless communication portion is configured to carry out communication at a higher speed and with a larger capacity than the second wireless communication portion. The second wireless communication portion is configured to carry out more reliable communication than the first wireless communication portion.
US11194309B2
An abnormality detection device of a machine tool including a spindle and a feed axis and includes: a load monitoring unit that monitors a load of the spindle or the feed axis; a machining state determination unit that determines that the machine tool is in a machining state when the load of the spindle or the feed axis is equal to or larger than a threshold; a storage unit that stores shape data of the work and shape data of the tool in advance; an interfering area calculation unit that calculates an interfering area in which the tool interferes with the work based on the shape data of the work and the shape data of the tool; and an abnormality detection unit that detects an abnormality in the machine tool by comparing a position of the tool in relation to the work when it is determined that the machine tool is in the machining state with the calculated interfering area.
US11194306B2
The present disclosure provides various aspects for mobile and automated processing utilizing additive manufacturing and the methods for their utilization and for making material dispensing element arrays for use of the additive manufacturing device.
US11194305B2
Systems and methods for monitoring dish ware position and modifying the wash and dry cycle of a dishwasher by capturing and analyzing image data utilizing a plurality of cloud-connected cameras.
US11194304B2
In an example method, first electrical power is generated using one or more solar panels, and a water level rise of a sea is mitigated, at least in part, using a water processing system that is at least partially powered by the first electrical power. Mitigating the water level rise of the sea includes extracting saline water from the sea, desalinating the saline water, directing the desalinated water to one or more turbine generators, generating second electrical power using the one or more turbine generators, and directing the desalinated water from the one or more turbine generators into one or more aquifers. The one or more aquifers are hydraulically isolated from the sea.
US11194300B2
The invention provides methods, systems and computer program products for monitoring field device states within a process control system, and for detecting and responding to state changes associated with one or more field devices. Implementation of the invention involves, for each field device within a selected sub-set of the plurality of field devices, (i) retrieving a reference set or template set of field device parameter state data associated with the field device (ii) retrieving a set of current state data associated with each field device within the selected sub-set of the plurality of field devices, (iii) comparing the two sets of parameter state data for each field device within the selected sub-set of the plurality of field devices and (iv) generating and/or displaying a report representing detected deviations between the two sets of parameter state data for each field device within the selected sub-set of the plurality of field devices.
US11194299B1
An electronic device, such as a watch, has a variable friction mechanism for providing variable frictional feedback as an input mechanism, such as a crown, is rotated. The variable frictional feedback may correspond to operational states, events, or other conditions at the electronic watch. The variable frictional feedback may be provided by changing a frictional force between the crown and the variable friction mechanism. The variable friction mechanism may include a friction element adapted to contact a shaft of the crown and an actuator adapted to change a frictional force between the friction element and the shaft.
US11194298B2
An electronic watch may include a housing defining a side wall having a through-hole and a crown assembly including an actuation member. The actuation member may include a crown shaft extending through the through-hole and having an exterior portion defining an input surface and a crown ring coupled to the exterior portion of the crown shaft and electrically isolated from the crown shaft. The crown assembly may further include an optical encoder component attached to the actuation member and defining a group of optical features. The electronic watch may further include an optical detector configured to detect rotation of the crown assembly by detecting motion of the group of optical features and an electrocardiograph sensor comprising a sensing component. The sensing component may be conductively coupled to the actuation member via a conductive path at least partially defined by the crown shaft.
US11194288B2
A control member 76 for controlling transmission and blocking of a rotational force by a clutch is rotatably supported by a supporting member which supports a developing frame. a locking portion provided on the control member 76 rotates between a position retracted from a locked portion of the clutch and a position for engaging with the locked portion.
US11194281B2
An image-forming apparatus includes a motor, a photosensitive drum, a developing roller, and a separation mechanism for moving the developing roller relative to the photosensitive drum. The separation mechanism includes: an end cam rotatable in a rotational direction; and a cam follower movable in accordance with a rotation of the end cam. The end cam includes a first surface, a second surface, a first sloped surface connecting the second surface to the first surface, and a second sloped surface connecting the first surface to the second surface in the rotational direction. The second sloped surface includes: a steep slope surface connected to the second surface; and a gentle slope surface connecting the first surface to the steep slope surface. The gentle slope surface slopes relative to the first surface by an angle smaller than an angle by which the steep slope surface slopes relative to the first surface.
US11194280B2
An interlock circuit comprises a plurality of semiconductor switching units electrically connected or connectable in series in a supply line, a plurality of control units electrically connected to the plurality of semiconductor switching units, and a trigger unit electrically connected to the plurality of control circuits. Each control unit activates or deactivates a corresponding semiconductor switching unit in response to trigger signal received from the trigger unit.
US11194261B2
The present invention relates to an electrostatic charge image developing toner having a ratio of TP2/TP1 of 1.47 to 2.35, wherein a first measurement value of a tan δ maximal value measured in 40° C. to 80° C. by a rheometer is set as the TP1, and a second measurement value of a tan δ maximal value measured in 40° C. to 80° C. by the rheometer is set as the TP2.
US11194250B2
A metal oxide photosensitive resin composition for forming a blue pattern layer includes scattering particles including a metal oxide having an average particle diameter of 30 to 300 nm, provided that the metal oxide photosensitive resin composition does not include quantum dots.
US11194246B1
Monolithic framed pellicle membrane integrating a structural framing member with a membrane spanning the framing member. The monolithic frame pellicle membrane is suitable as an overlay of a reticle employed in lithography operations of integrated circuit manufacture. A semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) wafer may be machined from the backside, for example with a bonnet polisher, to form a pellicle framing member by removing a portion of a base semiconductor substrate of the SOI wafer selectively to top semiconductor layer of the SOI wafer, which is retained as a pellicle membrane. In some exemplary embodiments suitable for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography applications, at least the top semiconductor layer of the SOI wafer is a substantially monocrystalline silicon layer.
US11194223B2
A method of forming an emitting array of waveguides, comprising providing a plurality of waveguides that exhibit different propagation constants so as to ensure that nearby waveguides do not couple evenly over parallel propagation lengths by varying a length in one or more dimensions of respective waveguides, whereby the respective waveguides are phase mismatched with at least their nearest neighbor.
US11194218B2
A first substrate includes: a first base material including an insulating layer; and a partition wall disposed on the insulating layer. The insulating layer and the partition wall are formed of a resin material. The partition wall has a higher hardness than the insulating layer. A protective film that protects the insulating layer is disposed on a surface of the insulating layer. A portion of the protective film is located between the partition wall and the insulating layer.
US11194217B2
Certain embodiments are directed to control methods, window controllers, and uninterruptible power supplies for determining tinting instructions for optically switchable windows to reduce power usage at a site during a reduced power event. In some cases, reduced power operations are initiated by a window controller upon receipt of a trigger signal from an uninterruptible power supply sent when it detects a power loss. In some cases, tinting instructions are based on the remaining charge left on the uninterruptible power supply. In some cases, reduced power operations are delayed for a period of time.
US11194203B2
A first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor are provided. In the first transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a first wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to a gate terminal of the second transistor; a gate terminal is electrically connected to a fifth wiring. In the second transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a third wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to a sixth wiring. In the third transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a second wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to the gate terminal of the second transistor; a gate terminal is electrically connected to a fourth wiring. In the fourth transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to the second wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to the sixth wiring; a gate terminal is connected to the fourth wiring.
US11194200B2
A liquid crystal display panel and a preparation method therefor are provided, including: an array substrate and a color filter substrate arranged opposite; the array substrate and the color filter substrate are correspondingly provided with a pixel region, during display the pixel region has an alignment dark fringe caused by photo-alignment, and the alignment dark fringe includes a dark fringe branch line located at an edge of the pixel region, wherein the color filter substrate is provided with a common electrode and a black matrix configured to define the pixel region, the array substrate is provided with a main pixel electrode and an edge voltage source, the edge voltage source is located at an edge of the pixel region and below the black matrix.
US11194198B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a display device including a first display panel, a second display panel, a polarizer, and a light source unit. The first display panel includes a first liquid crystal layer. The second display panel includes a second liquid crystal layer. The polarizer has an absorption axis which allows absorption of linearly polarized light. The light source unit is opposed to a first end portion of the first display panel and a second end portion of the second display panel. Each of the first liquid crystal layer and the second liquid crystal layer includes streak-like polymers and liquid crystal molecules.
US11194193B2
The present disclosure provides a mask assembly, a mask apparatus and a mask control method, pertaining to the field of mask technology. The mask assembly includes a mask plate and a controller. The mask plate includes a plurality of mask units. The mask unit has a light transmission state and a light interruption state. The controller is used to control the mask unit to switch between the light transmission state and the light interruption state to adjust a light transmission region of the mask plate. The present disclosure solves the problem that mask efficiency is low. The present disclosure is used to mask film layers.
US11194192B2
An illumination unit according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of first light-emission blocks, a plurality of second light-emission blocks, and a light-emission controller. The first light-emission blocks each include a plurality of first light-emitting devices arranged in a first direction. The second light-emission blocks are partially overlapped with the respective first light-emission blocks, and each include a plurality of second light-emitting devices arranged in a second direction different from the first direction. The light-emission controller performs light-emission control of the first light-emitting devices for each of the first light-emission blocks, and performs the light-emission control of the second light-emitting devices for each of the second light-emission blocks.
US11194190B2
The present application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes an array substrate and a color filter substrate arranged oppositely, and a light source on a side of the color filter substrate facing the array substrate. The color filter substrate includes a first region and a second region. An orthogonal projection of the array substrate on the color filter substrate is in the first region, and the light source is in the second region.
US11194189B2
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display panel having a quantum dot color filter and an absorption type color filter disposed in front of the quantum dot color filter, a backlight unit configured to supply light to the display panel, and a quantum dot sheet disposed between the display panel and the backlight unit.
US11194179B2
A process for creating wiring on a curved surface, such as the surface of a contact lens, includes the following. Creating a groove or trench in the curved surface. Forming a seed layer on the surface and on the groove. Removing the seed layer from the surface while leaving some or all of it in the groove. Depositing conductive material in the groove. Preferably, the deposited conductive material is thicker than the seed layer.
US11194176B2
Ocular devices worn on the eye and through-body communication networks for communicating with an ocular device and other devices interconnected to the through-body communication network are disclosed. Devices and networks for using the body to communication between an ocular device and an on-body and off-body communication networks are disclosed. An ocular device includes electrodes configured to be electrically coupled to the body through tear fluid of the eye when worn on the eye of a user. Electrodes interconnected to the body establish communication with on-body network devices and off-body network devices.
US11194173B2
A nose protection apparatus and related methods, for protecting a human nose from prolonged eyewear contact, the apparatus comprising: a center bridge region and two outer protective regions joined by the center bridge region, fabricated from a silicone material into an integral unit; a nasal bridge clearance cutout beneath the center bridge region; omitting any added adhesives, wherein all adhesion properties of the apparatus are inherent to material properties of the silicone material; omitting any structural elements for straightening the apparatus for widening a user's nostrils; a width selected from the width group consisting of: an adult width from 1.2″ to 2.8″; and a child width from 0.6″ to 1.4″; a height selected from the height group consisting of: an adult height from 0.375″ to 0.875″; and a child height from 0.1875″ to 0.4375″; a thickness from 0.02″ to 0.05″; and a durometer hardness from 5 to 20.
US11194156B2
There is provided a head-up display device which has a small size and of which the aberration is small and the range of an eye box in a vertical direction is wide. The head-up display device 10 includes a first optical system that includes at least one concave mirror arranged along an optical path of display light in order from an image display surface 1, and a second optical system that includes at least one concave mirror arranged along the optical path of the display light in order from the image display surface 1 side. An intermediate image is formed between the first and second optical systems on the optical path, and the first optical system includes a double reflection mirror that reflects the display light twice on the optical path.
US11194146B2
System and method using a projected reference to guide adjustment of a correction optic. In an exemplary method, a reference may be projected onto an imaging detector by propagation of light generally along an optical axis that extends from the reference, through an objective, to a surface of a sample holder, and from the surface, back through the objective, to the imaging detector. The light may propagate through an off-axis aperture located upstream of the imaging detector and spaced from the optical axis. A plurality of images of the reference may be captured using the imaging detector, and with a correction optic at two or more different settings. A setting for the correction optic may be selected based on the plurality of images, and a sample may be imaged while the correction optic has the selected setting.
US11194135B2
The present technology relates to, for example, a lens attached substrate including a substrate which has a through-hole formed therein and a light shielding film formed on a side wall of the through-hole and a lens resin portion which is formed inside the through-hole of the substrate. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a lens attached substrate, a layered lens structure, a camera module, a manufacturing apparatus, a manufacturing method, an electronic device, a computer, a program, a storage medium, a system, and the like.
US11194134B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, as second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. The first lens includes a positive refractive power and a convex image-side surface. The second lens includes a positive refractive power, and the third lens includes a negative refractive power. The fourth lens includes a positive refractive power, and the fifth lens includes a positive refractive power. The first to fifth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side toward an imaging plane.
US11194131B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of optical lens and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.00≤f1/f≤1.50, 1.70≤n5≤2.20, −2.00≤f3/f4≤2.00; 0.50≤(R13+R14)/(R13−R14)≤10.00; 1.70≤n7≤2.20, where f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; n5 denotes a refractive index of the fifth lens; f3 denotes a focal length of the third lens; f4 denotes a focal length of the fourth lens; R13 denotes a curvature radius of the object-side surface of the seventh lens; R14 denotes a curvature radius of the image-side surface of the seventh lens; n7 denotes a refractive index of the seventh lens. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11194128B2
A photographing optical lens assembly includes seven lens elements, the seven lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The third lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and having at least one critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
US11194125B2
The present disclosure discloses an iris lens assembly, having a total effective focal length f, and the iris lens assembly comprises sequentially a first lens, a second lens and a third lens from an object side to an image plane along an optical axis. The first lens has a positive refractive power, and an object-side surface of the first lens is a convex surface. Each of the second lens and the third lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power. A distance TTL from the object-side surface of the first lens to the image plane on the optical axis and the total effective focal length f satisfy 0.7
US11194123B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of optical lens and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.51≤f1/f≤2.50, 1.70≤n3≤2.20, −2.00≤f3/f4≤2.00, −10.00≤(R13+R14)/(R13−R14)≤10.00 and 1.70≤n5≤2.20, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; f3 denotes a focal length of the third lens; f4 denotes a focal length of the fourth lens; n3 denotes a refractive index of the third lens; n5 denotes a refractive index of the fifth lens; R13 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the seventh lens; and R14 denotes a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the seventh lens.
US11194122B2
A lens with a fixed focal length comprising including a first front lens-element group, a second lens-element group, a third lens-element group, a fourth lens-element group, and a fifth back lens-element group. Relative to an imaging plane in a lens barrel and both the focusing front group and the focusing back group are movable jointly relative to one another and to the lens-element groups arranged in a stationary manner in order to focus the lens on objects at different object distances. The front lens-element group has a positive refractive power and the central group and the back lens-element group have a negative refractive power.
US11194119B2
An optical assembly includes: an optical element, which is transmissive or reflective to radiation at a used wavelength and has an optically used region; and a thermally conductive component, which is arranged outside the optically used region of the optical element. The thermally conductive component can include a material having a thermal conductivity of more than 500 W m−1 K−1. Additionally or alternatively, the product of the thickness of the thermally conductive component in millimeters and the thermal conductivity of the material of the thermally conductive component is at least 1 W mm m−1 K−1.
US11194116B2
The present disclosure provides a lens module, including a lens barrel and a lens group. The lens group including at least one lens, and the lens barrel including an inside surface and an outside surface. The lens includes an optical portion and a bearing portion. The bearing portion includes an object side, an image side, a lateral surface and an inclined surface. The inside surface includes a first abutting surface, an extend surface and a second abutting surface, the lateral surface abutting against the first abutting surface, the lateral surface is provided with a protrusion extending from the lateral surface towards the second abutting surface. The protrusion is separated from the second abutting surface. The protrusion, the lateral surface, the extend surface and the second abutting surface form a first adhesive accommodation slot, and the inclined surface, the protrusion and the second abutting surface form a second adhesive accommodation slot.
US11194114B2
A filter assembly structure includes a filter holder and at least one filter, wherein the at least one filter is mounted on the filter holder using magnetic attraction. The filter assembly structure allows quick mounting and disassembling between the filter and the filter holder, and solves the problem of the filter getting stuck when the filter is being mounted on the conventional filter holder. The absence of the conventional slot reduces the thickness of the entire filter holder. Further, photograph vignetting is eliminated after the filter is mounted improving the photograph. The filter mounting is stable and reliable while also being very flexible and convenient to adjust by sliding up and down or turning left and right. Light leakage caused by a gap between the filters is reduced or eliminated improving the photographs produced with the filter assembly structure.
US11194111B2
Fiber optic splice closures adapted to house a large number of fiber splices. The closure holds a splice assembly including a support frame that supports two stacks of splice trays. The splice assembly can be inverted to access the second stack of splice trays. The support frame can also define one or more fiber organizing areas within the splice closure.
US11194105B2
A photoelectric conversion element includes a substrate including a lens-shaped convex portion and an annular concave portion surrounding the lens-shaped convex portion on a first main surface; a photoelectric conversion layer, positioned on an optical path of light passing through the lens-shaped convex portion, on a second main surface side of the substrate; and a pattern disposed on an outer peripheral side of the annular concave portion on the first main surface and disposed to interpose the lens-shaped convex portion from a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction.
US11194102B2
The invention is directed to a connector assembly (1) comprising a first connector part (2) which is interconnectable to a second connector part (3). The first connector part (2) comprises a ferrule (13) which is encompassed by a shutter frame (17) and a thereto attached shutter (16). The shutter (16) is arranged movable with respect to the ferrule (13) in a first direction (x) between a closed position, in which the shutter (16) encompasses a connection face (37) of the ferrule (13), and an open position, in which the connection face (37) is set free from the shutter (16). The shutter frame (17) and/or the shutter (16) comprises at least one locating surface (36) which during mating interacts with the second connector part (3) such that the shutter (16) is displaced relative to the ferrule (13) from the closed to the open position.
US11194097B2
A splice assembly for a fiber optic cable that has first and second fiber optic cable sections. The splice includes a filament alignment member configured to align an end portion of a first filament section of the first fiber optic cable section with an opposed end portion of a second filament section of the second fiber optic cable section; a first spring positioned adjacent the first end of the filament alignment member; a second spring positioned adjacent the second end of the filament alignment member; and a housing having a passage in which the first spring, filament alignment member and second spring are longitudinally positioned. The filament alignment member is longitudinally moveable relative to the housing by compression of one of the springs in a direction of travel of the filament alignment member against a corresponding stop feature.
US11194093B2
In an optical switch array on which optical switches that require individual electric wires are integrated, the present invention provides an optical switch array and a multi-cast switch in which the electric wires are shortened by optimizing the arrangement of the optical circuit portion. In the optical switch array in which three arrays of 1×4 switch circuits are disposed in parallel, the position where each optical switch is disposed is sequentially shifted by Dy in the y axis direction. That is, in the case where an adjacent 1×4 optical switch circuit exists on both sides, the 1×4 optical switch located there between is located at the center of the two 1×4 optical switch circuits, which are adjacent in the y axis direction. Each of the three 1×4 optical switch circuits that are arrayed are disposed at a position shifted from the adjacent 1×4 optical switch circuit by Dy in the y axis direction, in accordance with the positional coordinate in the x axis direction, and the electric wires at the ground side are shared such that each optical switch circuit is located sequentially shifted by Dy in the −y axis direction.
US11194086B2
Three-dimensional (3D) electronic displays provide different 3D views and employ one or both of an array of multibeam diffraction gratings arranged in offset rows and light valves having color filters. The displays include a plate light guide configured to guide light beams at a non-zero propagation angle, a multibeam diffraction grating configured to couple out a portion of the guided light beams as a plurality of light beams having different principal angular directions representing the different 3D views, and light valves configured to modulate the differently directed, coupled-out light beams. The multibeam diffraction grating may be a member of the array arranged in offset rows and the display may further include light valves having color filters. Alternately, the light valves include color filters and the display may further include the array of multibeam diffraction gratings arranged in offset rows.
US11194079B2
A lens unit includes a first lens array including first lenses arranged in at least two lines; a second lens array including second lenses arranged in an arrangement relationship corresponding to the first lens array, the second lenses respectively facing the first lenses, the second lens array being arranged to face the first lens array so that each pair of the first and second lenses has a common optical axis; and a first light blocking member arranged between the first lens array and the second lens array and having first openings each being arranged to face the pair of the first and second lenses in a direction of the optical axis. An interval PXL from an array center position between two adjacent lines to the optical axis and an interval PXS from the array center position to an opening center of the first opening satisfy PXL
US11194075B2
A mobile self-contained real-time storm and related events detection and tracking device utilizing a tunable multiple channel antenna array for multiple angle signal detection. High resolution data generated by movement of detected charged concentrations within a storm or pre-storm weather system is collected and displayed in real-time with bearing directional and distance alerts. Telemetric cloud-based network by multiple remote users to extend detection and enhanced detection and alerts generating capabilities. Mounting variations of multiple channel antenna array on varied mobile platforms allows for creation of regional detection and alert networks.
US11194071B2
An interconnect ring is used in attaching the leadwires to the coil wire ends of a microminiature sensor. The interconnect ring is affixed directly to an outside surface of either the core or the coil wire of the microminiature sensor. At least the two flexible ends of the coil wire are electrically joined to metal pads on the interconnect ring. Thereafter, the microminiature sensor can be handled with minimal risk of breakage, shorting or dislodging of the ends of the coil wire. Two other metal pads on the interconnect ring are left open for subsequent attachment of leadwires which can run the length of the catheter device in which the microminiature sensor is used.
US11194070B2
A distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system is coupled to an optical fiber along a plurality of channels. The system generates a DAS seismic profile of the subsurface formation based on detected seismic data, identifies at least one region having coherent noise, and identifies which of the plurality of channels are within the identified at least one region. For each trace of data associated with the plurality of noisy channels, the system converts, from a time to a wavelet domain, the trace of data and a reference trace having less coherent noise, and suppresses the wavelet coefficients of the trace of data based on the wavelet coefficients of the reference trace. After the system mitigates the noise in the wavelet domain, an inverse wavelet transform is applied to the trace of data to convert back to the time domain and create a reduced noise DAS seismic profile.
US11194068B1
Systems and methods for determining object location may include a memory and a processor. The processor may be configured to collect seismic data and geophysical data to determine object location. The processor may be configured to determine one or more seismic attributes associated with a plurality types of noises based on the seismic data and the geophysical data using one or more machine learning algorithms. The processor may be configured to eliminate unwanted noises from noise classifications based on the one or more seismic attributes. The processor may be configured to predict the object location by comparing time and velocity data of the object with recorded timing and velocity data. The processor may be configured to validate the object location by comparing the determined noise with image data. The systems and methods may be used in, for example, detecting missing planes such as Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
US11194064B1
An apparatus for providing in-situ radiation measurements within a density equivalent package is disclosed. The apparatus may include a radiation detector embedded within the density equivalent package that is configured to measure an amount of exposure of a phantom material of the density equivalent package to radiation emitted by an irradiation device. The phantom material may have density equivalence with an object or substance for which radiation exposure information is sought and the phantom material may serve as a substitute for the object or substance. A signal including the measurement of the amount of exposure of the phantom material to the radiation may be provided to a processor of the apparatus for processing. The processor may process the signal to interpret and provide additional information relating to the measurement and may provide the information to a device communicatively linked to the apparatus.
US11194063B2
Provided are an X-ray detector including a plurality of pixel driving micro integrated chips separately fabricated from a photodiode layer and printed on the photodiode layer and a method for manufacturing the X-ray detector. The X-ray detector may include a photodiode layer and a driver layer. The photodiode layer may include a plurality of photodiodes and be configured to receive X-ray that have passed through a target object and convert the received X-ray to electric signals. The driver layer may be formed on the photodiode layer and include a plurality of micro driving integrated chips each coupled to two or more photodiodes in the photodiode layer. The plurality of pixel driving integrated chips may be manufactured separately from the photodiode layer and printed on the photodiode layer using a micro-transfer printing method.
US11194062B2
A nuclear detector, comprises a scintillation crystal array including a plurality of scintillation crystal bars of the same size arranged closely and in sequence, a light guide, and a photodetector array including a plurality of photodetectors arranged in sequence. The photodetectors have a cross-sectional area greater than that of the scintillation crystal bars, and the light guide includes a top surface coupled to the scintillation crystal array, an opposed bottom surface coupled to the photodetector array and a side surface. The light guide has a thickness in a range of 0.1 mm to 40 mm. The light guide further includes a slit adjacent to an edge of the light guide, and the slit is configured to extend from the top surface toward the bottom surface of the light guide and the slit has a depth in a range of 0.1 to 0.5 times the thickness of the light guide.
US11194055B2
A method of receiving and decoding non-legacy GNSS signals and re-transmitting these in real-time as legacy GPS (L1-C/A) signals decoding into standard PVT/PNT information then re-encoding using a real-time GPS simulator as legacy GPS code signals, and outputting as a legacy GPS antenna signal. A navigational apparatus for performing the method may further include an Inertial Measurement Unit, Inertial Navigation System (IMU/INS) module and oscillator coupled to the GPS simulator for providing an inertial location signal supplementing the GNSS signal to the GPS simulator, wherein the GPS simulator encodes the RF simulated GPS signal based at least in part on the inertial location signal for a period when at least one of the GNSS signal or the PVT/PNT signal is not available.
US11194054B2
A system of architecture, apparatus and calibration method is invented for high-power flexible-polarization payload for satellite communications. The system comprises onboard phase-tracked apparatus, flexible polarization mechanism, and in-orbit calibration method. The power combining and polarization performance of the phase-tracked payload is monitored on ground by measuring the cross-polarization discrimination (XPD) and/or axial ratio (AR). The high performance over the life is achieved by optimization of the XPD or AR on ground and adjusting complex gain of the transponders. The high-power flexible-polarization in-orbit-calibration payload may be applied but not limited to UHF, L, S, C, X, Ku and Ka-band high power satellite systems.
US11194046B2
The invention relates to hydroacoustic equipment and can be used in constructing hydroacoustic systems. Multifrequency sonar side viewer comprising display unit, control unit, n-input adder, connected in series radio-frequency pulse generator, switch, multielement transceiving interference antenna, differs because of antenna aperture is made as cylinder-shaped bay, convex towards echo search, with radius of curvature R, that has generatrix l in azimuth plane and that is way longer than a chord, that draws together uttermost symmetric, relatively to the acoustic axe, points of arc with L length. The invention expands operational capabilities of sonar side viewer, reducing dead zone and increasing dimension of explored bottom surface swath in echo search direction, due to the using of non-linear self-action soundwaves effect.
US11194042B2
The invention relates to a tug for maneuvering a vessel, comprising at least one proximity sensor in a contact area, the proximity sensor being configured to detect a distance between the contact area and the vessel, and a tug controller unit controlling an approach of the tug towards the vessel based on the detected distance between the contact area and the vessel.
US11194038B2
A multistatic array topology and image reconstruction process for fast 3D near field microwave imaging are presented. Together, the techniques allow for hardware efficient realization of an electrically large aperture and video-rate image reconstruction. The array topology samples the scene on a regular grid of phase centers, using a tiling of multistatic arrays. Following a multistatic-to-monostatic correction, the sampled data can then be processed with the well-known and highly efficient monostatic Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) imaging algorithm. In this work, the approach is described and validated experimentally with the formation of high quality microwave images. The scheme is more than two orders of magnitude more computationally efficient than the backprojection method. In fact, it is so efficient that a cluster of four commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) graphical processing units (GPUs) can render a 3D image of a human-sized scene in 0.048-0.101 seconds.
US11194024B2
A LIDAR arrangement comprising a laser transmitter for transmitting pulses of a laser radiation to a measurement object, and a receiver for receiving pulses of the laser radiation backscattered from the measurement object, wherein the laser transmitter is configured to transmit a pulse sequence in which successive pulses respectively comprise a particular optical frequency shift to each other and wherein the receiver either includes a dispersive element for separating the pulses in time depending on the optical frequency by a frequency-based deflection, and a position resolution optical matrix transmitter on which the pulses separated in time by the dispersive element are mapped, or includes a frequency analyzer for the frequency-based separation of the pulses by superimposition with a reference radiation.
US11194018B2
A radar sensor for use in a vehicle is described. The radar sensor comprising: at least one transmitter and at least once receiver to transmit and receive radar signals of the radar sensor; an acceleration sensor to measure the acceleration of said radar sensor or the chassis of said vehicle; a processor coupled to said acceleration sensor to calculate a tilt in a radar signal projected from said vehicle using said measured acceleration; a memory for storing said calculated radar tilt.
US11194014B1
A method and apparatus that measure M coupled channels of radar polarization data ({tilde over (y)}), that is a subset, which is less than the full set of received coupled channels. Sparse recovery operations are performed on the measured M coupled channels of radar polarization data ({tilde over (y)}) and a representation of a set of more than M channels of radar polarization data is generated from the sparse recovery performed on the subset of coupled channels.
US11194008B2
Methods and systems provide for technology to identify a trigger event. In response to the trigger event, the technology executes a triangulation process that includes a transmission and reception of triangulation signals between the plurality of ECUs to identify current positions of the plurality of ECUs. A first current position among the current positions is associated with a first ECU among the plurality of ECUs. The technology conducts an identification that the first current position is different from a first recorded position of the first ECU. In response to the identification that the first current position is different from the first recorded position, the technology identifies an adjustment factor based on the first current position. The technology calibrates one or more of the plurality of ECUs based on the adjustment factor to adjust control of at least one system of a plurality of systems of the vehicle.
US11194004B2
A sensor includes a detector configured to sense a parameter, at least one test circuit configured to detect a respective fault condition of the sensor and generate a fault signal in response to detecting the fault condition, a checker configured to test the at least one test circuit to determine the operational status of the at least one test circuit, and an output signal generator, coupled to receive the sensed parameter, the fault signal, and the operational status of the at least one test circuit. The output signal generator is configured to generate an output signal of the sensor to communicate the sensed parameter and the operational status of the at least one test circuit.
US11194002B2
Method for optimizing a chronological sequence in an MR control sequence according to which a magnetic resonator having a gradient coil unit including first and second gradient coils and a cooling layer is controllable. The MR control sequence has a first and second sequence modules configured to control the first and second gradient coils, respectively. The method comprises detecting a property including a cooling power of the cooling layer for the first gradient coil or the second gradient coil, or a feature which is representative of a chronologically preceding use of the gradient coil unit; determining a first requirement of the first sequence module on the first gradient coil; determining a second requirement of the second sequence module on the second gradient coil; and optimizing the chronological sequence in the first and second sequence module by taking into account the property and the first and second requirements.
US11194001B2
In a method and apparatus for performing magnetic resonance (MR) imaging for generating multiple T1 maps of separate regions of interest of a subject along a first spatial axis, multiple MR pulse sequences are generated, each MR pulse sequence being for imaging a respective one of the separate regions of interest of the subject. In order to generate each of the plurality of MR pulse sequences, a spatially selective preparation pulse is generated exciting the region of interest of the subject and a number of imaging sequences that follow the application of the spatially selective preparation pulse are generated. MR imaging data are acquired during the generation of the multiple imaging sequences. The multiple MR pulse sequences are generated during a period not exceeding 30 seconds.
US11193997B2
A method of operating a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus includes exciting a body coil of the MRI apparatus to emit a radio-frequency signal, determining a center frequency of a resonance curve of the body coil, and calculating a magnet target frequency based on the determined center frequency. A magnet is ramped to the magnet target frequency.
US11193980B2
An inspection method of a present electrical storage device includes: constituting a circuit with the electrical storage device being charged and a power supply, and passing a current by the power supply to the circuit in a direction of charging or discharging the electrical storage device; and in passing the current, determining the quality of the electrical storage device based on a converging state of the passing current. In passing the current, an output voltage of the power supply is changed from an initial value with the passage of time.
US11193977B2
A system includes a circuit interrupter including a light source structured to output light and a first processor structured to obtain information associated with the circuit interrupter and to control the light source to output light in a pattern representing the information. The system also include an adapter structured to detect light output by the light source, convert the detected light to another form, and to output the converted form of the light and an electronic device structured to receive the converted form of the light. The electronic device includes a second processor structured to convert the converted form of the light into the information.
US11193976B2
A switching device including: a body which has a first side wall and a first end wall, the first side wall being perpendicular in relation to a longitudinal direction, and the first end wall is substantially perpendicular to the first side wall; and a first fixed contact comprising an inner section and an outer section, the inner section having a thickness dimension, the outer section protrudes from the first side wall in the longitudinal direction. The first fixed contact includes a test terminal which is integral to the inner section and protrudes from the inner section in a lateral direction, which is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and an end wall plane defined by the first end wall, the test terminal having a substantially planar test terminal surface, and the test terminal has a thickness dimension which is parallel to the thickness dimension of the inner section, the thickness dimension of the test terminal is substantially smaller than the thickness dimension of the inner section, the test terminal is accessible from outside the body from the direction of the first end wall, and the test terminal is adapted to be connected to a female connector.
US11193970B2
Disclosed are a test chamber and a test apparatus having the same. The test chamber includes a test compartment configured to support a plurality of test boards, each being configured to secure a test object. The test chamber applies a test signal to the test object. The test chamber includes an inlet side and a discharge side, and a supply duct vertically extending along a height of the test compartment. The supply duct supplies the inlet side of the test compartment with the test fluid. The test chamber includes a fluid controller to uniformly control a distribution of a test fluid in the supply duct and uniformly supply the test compartment with the test fluid. The disclosed test chamber and test apparatus provide a uniform test temperature and thereby improve a test reliability of a test object such as a semiconductor or semiconductor package.
US11193967B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to detecting and recording information associated with electrical overstress (EOS) events, such as electrostatic discharge (ESD) events. For example, in one embodiment, an apparatus includes an electrical overstress protection device, a detection circuit configured to detect an occurrence of the EOS event, and a memory configured to store information indicative of the EOS event.
US11193960B2
A current sensor is for determining the level of the current of a conductor of a low-voltage circuit. In an embodiment, it includes a current transformer including a magnetic core. The magnetic core is an annular core having a core inner diameter, a middle diameter and a core outer diameter. The annular core is wound with a secondary winding, including an inner opening with an inner diameter and an outer circumference with an outer diameter. The secondary winding supplies the circuit with electrical energy. The wound annular core is configured such that the difference between the middle diameter as the minuend and the inner diameter as the subtrahend is 0.5 to 0.6 times smaller than the difference between the outer diameter as the minuend and the inner diameter as the subtrahend, to achieve an optimum for supplying energy and determining the level of the current in connection with the circuit.
US11193947B2
Described herein are methods for assessing the risk of cardiovascular disease in a subject in need thereof by detecting the presence of one or more cleavage products of the one or more natriuretic peptides over a period of time, wherein the presence of one or more cleavage products is indicative of an increased risk of the subject developing cardiovascular disease. Provided herein are compositions and kits comprising a non-natural natriuretic peptide comprising one or more D-amino acids. Also provided herein are methods of diagnosing a subject for a disease and treating the subject for the disease, wherein the method comprises the use of a non-natural natriuretic peptide comprising one or more D-amino acids.
US11193946B2
Provided concerns a blood biomarker for discerning the cerebral deposition of amyloid beta, which is a causative material of Alzheimer's dementia. A marker according to the subject matter can conveniently and rapidly predictive of cerebral amyloid beta accumulation by use of a blood and can be effectively used in diagnosing relevant diseases including mild cognitive impairment at a preclinical level.
US11193938B2
The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods and compositions for treating myeloid disorders (e.g., acute myeloid leukemia (AML)). It relates to immunoresponsive cells bearing antigen recognizing receptors (e.g., chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)) targeting AML-specific antigens.
US11193932B2
The invention relates to a family of compounds that comprise fluorescent cyanine dyes. The compounds are near infrared absorbing heptamethine cyanine dyes with a 4,4-disubstituted cyclohexyl ring as part of the polymethine chromophore. The compounds are generally hydrophilic and can be chemically linked to biomolecules, such as proteins, nucleic acids, and therapeutic small molecules. The compounds can be used for imaging in a variety of medical, biological and diagnostic applications.
US11193931B2
A VAMP epitope suitable for generating an antibody against a VAMP C-terminal neurotoxin cleavage product. Method of using such an epitope to generate an antibody against cleaved VAMP. Method of using such an antibody to assay for cleavage of a VAMP by clostridial neurotoxin.
US11193928B2
An unmanned vehicle operated autonomously or by remotely piloting incorporates an onboard camera which is affixed with clear tape coated with a chemical colorimetric sensor dye sensitive to chemical warfare agents. Chemical warfare agents are detected by visual review or autonomous measurement of sensor color changes while the unmanned vehicle travels through a region suspected of having chemical warfare agents present. In various implementations, the sensor output color changes may be visually monitored by a vehicle operator viewing the camera image from a remote location. In various embodiments, the detection of chemical warfare agents may be confirmed by processing the coated tape with a calibrated opto-electronic reader.
US11193925B2
A Self Monitoring And Reporting Therapeutics, SMART® composition, method apparatus and system are provided which flexibly provide options, by combining different embodiments of the device with different embodiments of the composition, the ability to conduct definitive medication adherence monitoring over the short term (Acute Medication Adherence Monitoring, immediately up to an hour or so after taking a medication), intermediate term (Intermediate Medication Adherence Monitoring, IMAM, an hour or so to a day or so after taking a medication), and longer term (Chronic Medication Adherence Monitoring, CMAM, a day to several days after taking a medication).
US11193923B2
A method of detection of an analyte includes using a detector array having at least two detector elements that can emit electromagnetic waves, and selectively connecting a transmit circuit to any one or more of the at least two detector elements of the detector array. At least one transmit signal is generated using the transmit circuit, where the at least one transmit signal is in a radio or microwave frequency or visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum. The at least one transmit signal is transmitted into a target containing at least one analyte of interest using the one or more of the at least two detector elements connected to the transmit circuit. A receive circuit is selectively connected to a different one or more of the at least two detector elements of the detector array, and the receive circuit and the different one or more of the at least two detector elements of the detector array are used to detect a response resulting from transmission of the at least one transmit signal into the target containing the at least one analyte of interest.
US11193919B2
Methods for identifying carbon derived from natural sources in a confectionary product are presented. Methods include separating, extracting and carbon dating components of a confectionary product, e.g., chewing gum or chewing gum base.
US11193918B2
The vehicular carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds alarm is configured for use with a vehicle. The vehicle is further defined with a passenger space. The vehicular carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds alarm is maintained in the passenger space of the vehicle. The vehicular carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds alarm is a sensor. The vehicular carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds alarm monitors the concentration of carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds in the air in the passenger space of the vehicle. The vehicular carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds alarm generates a visible and audible alarm when the concentration of carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds in the passenger space of the vehicle exceeds a predetermined level. The vehicular carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds alarm comprises an operating circuit and a housing. The housing contains the operating circuit.
US11193912B2
An ultrasonic measurement apparatus (1) estimates a property/state of a test object (100) that allows an injected ultrasonic wave to propagate as plate waves (UW) of propagation modes. The ultrasonic measurement apparatus (1) includes: a receiver (30) configured to receive a detected signal obtained by detecting the plate waves (UW) propagating through the test object (100) to output a received signal indicating a time-domain waveform of the detected signal; an intensity detector (12) configured to detect the signal intensity of a waveform part corresponding to a first propagation mode, and the signal intensity of a waveform part corresponding to a second propagation mode; and an estimator (13) configured to make a comparison between the signal intensities to estimate a property/state of the test object (100) on the basis of a result of the comparison.
US11193909B2
A photoionization detector is disclosed. The photoionization detector comprises a detector electrode that outputs a signal, an ultraviolet lamp, a lamp driver communicatively coupled to the ultraviolet lamp and configured to turn the ultraviolet lamp on and off in response to a control input, and a controller that is communicatively coupled to the output signal of the detector electrode and to the control input of the lamp driver, that outputs an indication of gas detection based on the output signal of the detector electrode, and that turns the lamp driver on and off with an on duty cycle of less than 10%.
US11193908B2
The present invention relates to a gas sensor and a manufacturing method thereof. A sensor body of the gas sensor is formed by cutting a multi-layered ceramic/metal platform where a plurality of sequential layer structures of a ceramic dielectric material and metal are layered in a layering direction. The sensor body includes at least one layered body wherein a ceramic dielectric material, a first internal electrode, a ceramic dielectric material, and a second internal electrode are sequentially layered. The first internal electrode and the second internal electrode are exposed through a cut surface by cutting. The first internal electrode is electrically connected to a first electrode terminal disposed on a first side of the sensor body, and the second internal electrode is electrically connected to a second electrode terminal disposed on a second side of the sensor body facing the first side. The first and the second internal electrode are exposed to form a sensing surface on at least one side of the sensor body excluding a side where the first and the second electrode terminal are installed. A gas sensing material layer for gas detection is formed on a portion or an entire upper portion of the sensing surface, or a metal film whose contact resistance with the gas sensing material layer is lower than the first and the second internal electrode is formed on upper portions of the first and the second internal electrode which are exposed and a gas sensing material layer for gas detection is formed on a portion or an entire upper portion of the sensing surface where the metal film is formed.
US11193905B2
An electrical device including: voltage carrying components, a solid insulation system configured to electrically insulate the voltage carrying components, and a moisture sensor configured to detect moisture in the solid insulation system, wherein the moisture sensor includes: a capacitor having: a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric material arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the solid insulation system forms the dielectric material, the capacitance of the capacitor providing an indication of a moisture level in the dielectric material.
US11193904B2
A sensor for sensing a gaseous analyte comprising semiconductor phononic nanowire structure and a micro-platform. The sensor comprises a thermal element sensitive to temperature and involving variously chemi-resistive, absorptive and phase change effects. Sensor readout includes monitoring the temperature of the micro-platform.
US11193896B2
Systems and methods for determining cross-section profiles of underground fluid conveyance structures involves a memory configured to store a profile scan dataset of at least one pipe and at least one pipe template. A processor is configured to compare the profile scan dataset to one or more templates. Profile deviations in a pipe profile are determined using the comparison. A location and an areal measurement of the profile deviations is determined. A user interface is configured to present the profile deviations to a user.
US11193893B2
A device and a method for inspecting containers for impurities and three-dimensional container structures comprising a radiation source. The radiation source is designed to emit radiation that radiates through a container to be examined. The device also comprises a detection element designed to detect the radiation that has been emitted by the radiation source and has radiated through the container. The device further comprises an evaluation element designed to evaluate the radiation detected by the detection element in terms of dirt and damage to the container. The radiation source has a plurality of spatially separated radiation zones. The radiation zones of the radiation source are designed to emit radiation of different wavelength ranges or of a different intensity.
US11193888B2
A system featuring a substrate and a multiplicity of nanostructures arranged on the substrate is provided. At least one portion of the nanostructures feature a capturing moiety covalently attached to a surface thereof and at least another portion of the nanostructures, which can be the same or different from the first portion, feature a light-activatable moiety covalently attached to a surface thereof. The capturing moiety is such that selectively interacts with an analyte, and the light-activatable moiety generates, upon exposure to light, a reactive moiety that interferes with an interaction of the capturing moiety and the analyte. Further provided are systems featuring a substrate and a multiplicity of nanostructures aligned generally vertically to the substrate, at least a portion of these nanostructures being branched nanostructures. Uses of the systems in extracting, and optionally identifying, the analyte from a sample are also provided.
US11193887B2
A defect detection device 10 is provided with: a laser light source 11 for irradiating laser light to a measurement region R of a surface of an inspection object S; a laser light source control unit 15 for controlling the laser light source so as to cause laser light to be outputted continuously or quasi-continuously for a time longer than a period of vibration generated in the inspection object; an interferometer (speckle shearing interferometer 14) for generating interference light in which reflected light of the laser light reflected in the measurement region and reference laser light emitted from the laser light source 11 interfere; a detector (image sensor 145) for detecting the intensity of the interference light for each point in the measurement region R; a phase shifter 143 for shifting the phase of the reflected laser light or the reference laser light; an integrated intensity pattern determination unit 16 for obtaining an integrated intensity obtained by integrating the intensity for each point over an integration time longer the period of the vibration in three or more phases, the phase being shifted by the phase shifter 143 into three or more different phases; an interference degree distribution generation unit 17 for obtaining the distribution of the degree of interference based on the integrated intensity obtained in each of the three or more phases for each point; and a defect detection unit 18 for detecting a defect in the measurement region R based on the distribution of the degree of interference in the measurement region R.
US11193880B2
Gas analyzer or gas analysis method, in which beams of at least two different radiation sources are coupled into a Herriott cell containing a measurement gas and, after being reflected multiple times, are coupled out therefrom and detected, wherein the beams are aligned such that they strike mirrors in point patterns which extend along ellipses, where the different ellipses lie inside one another and have two shared vertices (co-vertices) on a shared axis of symmetry, whereas the other co-vertices (or vertices) do not coincide, the beams of at least two of the different radiation sources are coupled into the Herriott cell at differing points of the associated point pattern and/or are coupled into the Herriott cell such that they pass through the associated point patterns along the ellipses in opposite directions, and where all beams are coupled out at the point of one of the shared vertices.
US11193878B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to fluorescence-based flow cytometry. A flow cytometer may include a partially-reflective surface configured to reflect a first portion of fluorescent emissions from a sample to a first optical sensor and direct a second, greater portion of fluorescent emissions from the sample to a second optical sensor and a controller configured to determine a value representing the intensity of the fluorescent emissions based on a first measurement taken by the first optical sensor, a second measurement taken by the second optical sensor, or both. A flow cytometer may include a baseplate with a first side and a second, opposing side with a flow cell, a laser, and a reflective surface disposed above the first side and an optical sensor and isolating material disposed below the second side. The reflective surface receives fluorescent emissions and reflects at least a portion through the baseplate to the optical sensor. A flow cytometer may include a flow cell, a laser, a first optical sensor positioned to measure scattered laser light, a second optical sensor positioned to measure fluorescent emissions, and a controller configured to adjust the measurements taken by the second optical sensor based on a comparison of measurements taken by the first optical sensor with expected measurements based on a known beam profile of the laser beam.
US11193871B2
Provided is an apparatus for measuring particulate matter, the apparatus including an air inflow device configured to receive air including particulate matter particles, two or more light sources configured to respectively emit light of different wavelengths to the air received, a pattern measuring device configured to measure scattering patterns for each wavelength of light based on detecting light that is forward-scattered by the particulate matter particles and light that is back-scattered by the particulate matter particles, and a processor configured to obtain a size of the particulate matter particles and a concentration of the particulate matter particles based on the scattering patterns for each wavelength of light.
US11193867B2
The present invention relates to a test system and method capable of simultaneously carrying out a high-throughput test of mechanical properties for miniature specimens. The system comprises one workstation (17) and a plurality of specimen test modules (16) installed horizontally or vertically on a workbench (15), wherein the workstation (17) comprises an operation interface, a data processing unit and a load output unit; each specimen test module (16) comprises a drive unit (5), an interchangeable clamp unit (8), a displacement sensor (2), and a load sensor (14); the workstation (17) controls the drive unit (5) of the specimen test module (16) and receives detection data of the displacement sensor (2) and the load sensor (14); each specimen test module (16) optionally performs mechanical property testing independently; and the workstation (17) controls simultaneously started testing of a plurality of specimens (9). The present invention can achieve tensile, bending, compression bending, stress-rupture, relaxation, and fatigue strength tests on a plurality of specimens at the same time.
US11193866B2
A specimen heating apparatus includes a heater unit configured to heat a test specimen held in a material testing machine, a heater holding unit configured to hold the heater unit in a set position relative to the test specimen for heating, a specimen temperature measurement unit attached to the heater unit and configured to measure temperature of the test specimen when the heater unit is in the set position, a temperature controller configured to control heating of the heater unit in response to a temperature measured by the specimen temperature measurement unit, and a thermal insulation unit configured to cover the heater unit, wherein the heater holding unit holds the heater unit in such a way that the heater unit is allowed to be brought to and removed from the set position while the test specimen is being held in the material testing machine.
US11193863B2
A control cabinet arrangement for an exhaust gas measurement device. The control cabinet arrangement includes a first control cabinet which delimits a first interior space and a second control cabinet which delimits a second interior space. A first heat-generating component of the exhaust emission measurement device is arranged in the first interior space. A second component of the exhaust emission measurement device is arranged in the second interior space. At least one fluidic connection connects the first interior space and the second interior space. The second component is heatable by an air flow flowing between the first interior space and the second interior space.
US11193862B2
A biological fluid collection device that receives a sample and provides flow-through blood stabilization technology and a precise sample dispensing function for point-of-care and near patient testing applications is disclosed. A biological fluid collection device of the present disclosure is able to effectuate distributed mixing of a sample stabilizer within a blood sample and dispense the stabilized sample in a controlled manner. In this manner, a biological fluid collection device of the present disclosure enables blood micro-sample management, e.g., passive mixing with a sample stabilizer and controlled dispensing, for point-of-care and near patient testing applications.
US11193859B2
An apparatus including a reagent cartridge and a reaction chamber, the reagent cartridge having a reagent capsule removably positioned therein for dispensing of a reagent onto the reaction chamber. A system including a linearly translatable mounting assembly having a plurality of mounting stations dimensioned to receive at least one fluid dispensing cartridge, a linearly translatable bulk reagent dispensing assembly having a plurality of bulk reagent dispensing nozzles coupled thereto and a receiving assembly positioned beneath the mounting assembly and the bulk reagent dispensing assembly, the receiving assembly including a plurality of reaction stations. A method including determining an inventory of an automated sample processing system, downloading a processing protocol from a central controller to the automated sample processing system, operating the automated sample processing system based on the processing protocol and independently of the central controller and dispensing a reagent from the automated sample processing system.
US11193857B2
A tire testing machine is for testing a tire, comprising a free roller section configured to include a plurality of rollers having an endmost roller disposed downstream of a lubricator in a conveying direction and farthest from a predetermined reference position, the endmost roller being disposed such that a horizontal distance from the reference position is equal to or greater than a radius of a largest of a plurality of tires set in advance as objects of application of a lubricant.
US11193852B1
A system configured to detect failure of a hose includes a sensor assembly having a body with a first arm and a second arm pivotally coupled to one another at respective first ends, and the body is configured to move between a closed position and an open position. The sensor assembly also includes a first electrical contact positioned at a respective second end of the first arm and a second electrical contact position at a respective second end of the second arm. The first electrical contact and the second electrical contact are configured to contact one another to form a complete electrical circuit when the body is in the closed position and are configured to be separated from one another to form an open electrical circuit when the body is in the open position to facilitate detection of the failure of the hose.
US11193847B1
Techniques for implementing and/or operating a system that includes an inner pipe segment disposed within an outer bore and a testing apparatus. The inner pipe segment includes tubing that defines a pipe bore through the inner pipe segment and a fluid conduit within a tubing annulus of the inner pipe segment. The testing apparatus includes a test fluid source fluidly connected to the fluid conduit defined within the inner pipe segment, in which the test fluid source injects test fluid into the tubing annulus of the inner pipe segment, and sensors disposed along the outer bore, in which the sensors determine sensor data indicative of a downstream parameter that results due to injection of the test fluid into the tubing annulus of the inner pipe segment to enable a potential location of a breach in the tubing of the inner pipe segment to be determined based on the downstream parameter.
US11193841B2
A sensor includes a main drive gear mounted on a shaft that is subjected to detection by the sensor such that the main drive gear is rotatable integrally with the shaft; at least one driven gear meshing with the main drive gear; a sensor housing accommodating the main drive gear and the at least one driven gear; a biasing member biasing the at least one driven gear toward the main drive gear; and a conversion mechanism configured to convert an axial force that is parallel to an axial direction of the shaft and acts on the at least one driven gear to a force in such a direction that the at least one driven gear is separated from the main drive gear when a part of the at least one driven gear contacts a part of the main drive gear while the shaft is inserted in the sensor housing.
US11193840B1
A system for monitoring injuries comprising a plurality of wearable user input devices and a wireless transceiver. Each of the plurality of wearable user input devices may be configured to detect motion patterns of a user. Each of the plurality of wearable user input devices may be configured as performance equipment. The wireless transceiver may be configured to communicate the motion patterns to a user device. The user device may be configured to (i) develop and store reference patterns related to impacts, (ii) compare the detected motion patterns with the reference patterns, (iii) estimate a location and direction of an impact based on the comparison, (iv) accumulate data from the estimated impact with previously suffered impact data, (v) aggregate results based on the accumulated impact data and context information and (vi) generate feedback for the user based on the aggregated results.
US11193839B2
A system for measuring torque on a component having a residually magnetized region is provided. The system includes a torque sensor for sensing an electromagnetic characteristic of the component and transmitting a plurality of signals that are indicative of the electromagnetic characteristic. The system also includes a computer communicatively coupled to the torque sensor for receiving the signals. The computer includes a processor and a memory. The processor is programmed to determine, using the signals, that the torque sensor is affected by the residually magnetized region of the component.
US11193830B2
A spectro-colorimeter system for imaging pipeline is provided, the system including a camera system; a spectrometer system; and a controller coupling the camera system and the spectrometer system. In some embodiments the camera system is configured to provide a color image with the first portion of the incident light. Also, in some embodiments the spectrometer system is configured to provide a tristimulus signal from the second portion of the incident light. Furthermore, in some embodiments the controller is configured to correct the color image from the camera system using the tristimulus signal from the spectrometer. An imaging pipeline method for using a system as above is also provided. Further, a method for color selection in an imaging pipeline calibration is provided.
US11193825B2
A high-sensitivity nanosecond to millisecond transient absorption spectrometer for measurements of miniscule signals under low excitation intensities includes an excitation source generating a >100 Hz, <5 ns pulsewidth excitation pulse for exciting a light absorbing sample, a probe light source for generating a high photon flux probe light beam producing an average irradiance greater than 1 μW m-2 nm-1 for measuring the transient absorption spectrum of the sample before and after excitation by the excitation source, a DC-coupled detector capable of measuring light for enabling synchronous measurement of both the transmission of the probe light beam and the change in transmission of the probe light beam between a signal with the excitation pulse present and a signal in the absence of the excitation pulse, and a digital oscilloscope with a trigger rearm time capable of collecting every trigger event at frequencies including 1MHz, for enabling sequential noise subtraction protocols.
US11193824B2
Methods, devices and systems provide improved spectral imaging and detection and can be implemented as compact, light-weight and low-cost devices. An example device includes a mask that includes a plurality of apertures and positioned to receive light from an object of interest. A first lenslet array is positioned to receive light that passes through the plurality of apertures. Each lenslet of the first lenslet array receives the light from a corresponding aperture and produces collimated light that is incident on a dispersive element, such as a diffraction grating or a prism, which produces a plurality of spectrally separated components. A second lenslet array receives the spectrally separated components and focuses each of the spectrally separated components onto an image plane, where a sensor is located. The information obtained from the sensor can be used to determine or analyze spectral characteristics of the object, which can be in gaseous form.
US11193818B2
A frequency modulation demodulator based on fiber grating sensor array comprises: a laser, radio frequency signal source, acousto-optic modulator, delay fiber pair, Mach-Zehnder modulator, optical filter, optical amplifier, optical isolator, circulator, fiber grating sensor array, photodetector and data acquisition card. By the cooperation of delay fiber pair and the fiber grating, the reflected optical pulses of the two gratings (the front grating and the back grating) are overlapped in the time domain to form interference, and thereby achieving multi-point array interference demodulation.
US11193816B2
An embodiment of an equipment health state monitoring method adapted to monitor an equipment having a monitored part, including: obtaining a plurality of first values of the monitored part from a sensor in a first time period; extracting a plurality of first parameters from the first values; generating an equipment health state index model according to the first parameters; obtaining a plurality of second value from the sensor in a second time period after the first time period; extracting a plurality of second parameters from the second values; generating a plurality of equipment health state indices according to the second parameters and the equipment health state index model; generating a health state control chart according to the equipment health state indices; and determining whether each of the equipment health state indices locates in an alert area of the health state control chart and outputting a determination result accordingly.
US11193812B2
Method for weighing an object transported on a mover of an electromagnetic conveyor and electromagnetic conveyor. Method includes lifting object off the mover with a lifting device; setting down object onto at least one transport plane of a weighing station arranged at a weighing region of the track and arranged on at least one weigh cell. The transport plane extends in the direction of movement to support the object when in the weighing station. The method also includes actively driving object while lifted off from the mover and while supported on the transport plane with the mover as it moves along the track through a weighing region; weighing object with at least one weigh cell while the object is supported by the transport plane; and setting down object on the mover after weighing in the weighing station for onward movement of object along the track with the mover.
US11193810B2
Methods and systems for validating a fluid level sensor having a floating element are provided. First readings are acquired from the fluid level sensor indicative of fluid levels sensed via the floating element during a first period of operation of the fluid level sensor. A validated range of fluid levels for the fluid level sensor is determined based on the first readings. At least one second reading is acquired from the fluid level sensor during a second period of operation, subsequent to the first period of operation. A starting position of the floating element for the second period of operation is determined based on the at least one second reading. When the starting position of the floating element is within the validated range, validating the at least one second reading.
US11193802B2
A sensor arrangement includes a support component, a sensor element with at least two terminals, at least two plug contacts and at least two connection elements. The at least two connection elements are configured for electrically connecting the terminals to the control contacts. An inner chamber of the support component is filled with a sealing compound which forms a seal around at least the sensor element and the terminals, the plug contacts at least on the contacting region of the connection elements, and the connection elements. The sealing mass is covered at least partially with a film.
US11193801B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe amplifier dynamics compensation through feedback control for distributed fiber sensing systems, methods, and structures employing Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry.
US11193799B2
A rotary encoder for detecting the angle of rotation of a first rotatable shaft, with a first mark which is coupled with the first shaft, a second mark which is coupled with the second rotatable shaft, a third mark which is coupled with the second shaft, a fixed fourth mark and means for detecting a passage of the third mark though a vicinity of the fourth mark and means for detecting a coincidence of the angles of rotation of the first and the second marks.
US11193797B2
A complex current measurement circuit for a guard-sense capacitive sensor includes a periodic signal voltage source, a differential transimpedance amplifier circuit (DTA) and a demultiplexer circuit (DMX). At least one sense antenna electrode of the capacitive sensor is electrically connectable to a signal input line of the DMX which has signal output lines electrically connected to differential signal input lines of the DTA. The DTA includes operational amplifiers having input ports each electrically connected to one of the signal output lines. For each differential signal input line, either a capacitor is electrically connected between an output port of the voltage source and the differential signal input line, wherein an impedance of the capacitor is close to zero Ohm, or a galvanic connection is provided to one of the signal output lines. An output signal provided by the DTA is usable for determining a complex sense current of the capacitive sensor.
US11193796B2
A rotational angle sensor includes a stator element and a rotor element. The rotor element is mounted to rotate about a rotation axis. The stator element has a transmitter coil and a receiver coil that are arranged on a circuit board. The receiver coil substantially encloses the rotation axis in a circumferential direction and is formed by a plurality of adjacent partial windings. The partial windings are each formed from sections of two circular-arc-shaped conductor paths curved to the left and two circular-arc-shaped conductor paths curved to the right. A first conductor path curved to the right extends through a first point on a first circle, a second point on a third circle and rotated relative to the first point by a quarter of a measuring range of the sensor, and a third point on a second circle and rotated relative to the first point by half the measuring range.
US11193793B2
The invention relates to a sensor system (1), and a method for determining an absolute rotation angle (δ) of a shaft (10) with a rotation angle range of more than one revolution and to a vehicle fitted with a sensor system (1), wherein the sensor system (1) has a main rotor (2) that can be connected rotationally synchronously to the shaft (10), a first auxiliary rotor (3) which is mechanically coupled to the main rotor (2), a second auxiliary rotor (4) mechanically coupled to the main rotor (2), a first sensor device (SE1) which is assigned to the first auxiliary rotor (3) for generating a first sensor signal dependent on a rotation angle of the first auxiliary rotor (3), a second sensor device (SE2) which is assigned to the second auxiliary rotor (4) for generating a second sensor signal dependent on a rotation angle of the second auxiliary rotor (4), a third sensor device (SE3) which is assigned to the main rotor (2) and which is used for generating a third sensor signal dependent on a relative rotation angle (γ) of the main rotor (2) and an evaluation device for determining the absolute rotation angle (δ) of the main rotor (2) from the sensor signals of the sensor devices (SE1, SE2, SE3). The detection range (α) of the third sensor device is less than 360°.
US11193782B2
A vehicle position estimation apparatus according to the present invention includes a painted line recognition result processing unit configured to calculate whether the vehicle has made a lane change and a direction of the lane change when the vehicle has made the lane change, a vehicle lateral position calculating unit configured to calculate a lane where the vehicle is in travel and a vehicle lateral position that is a lateral position of the vehicle in the lane based on whether the vehicle has made the lane change, the direction of the lane change, and a lane connection relation, and an on-map vehicle position calculating unit configured to calculate an on-map position of the vehicle on the road based on a map information, the lane where the vehicle is in travel, the vehicle lateral position, and a forward travel distance.
US11193781B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to generating and utilizing three-dimensional terrain maps for vehicular control. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11193777B2
An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to acquire information for identifying a vehicle conducting ride-sharing; and instruct a management apparatus of a toll road to apply preferential treatment when the vehicle conducting the ride-sharing travels along the toll road.
US11193774B2
A system and method for determining a path to a target destination are presented. A position sensor is mounted to a haul truck. The position sensor is configured to identify a position of the haul truck. A distributed objects database stores information describing target destinations within a mining environment and performance characteristics of the haul truck. A navigation aid is connected to the position sensor. The navigation aid is configured to identify a target destination for the haul truck, retrieve a performance characteristic of the haul truck from the distributed objects database, and calculate a first path to the target destination using the performance characteristic of the haul truck. A user interface is connected to the navigation aid. The user interface is configured to display the first path for an operator of the haul truck.
US11193771B1
Columnar multi-axis microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices (such as gyroscopes) balanced against undesired linear and angular vibration are described herein. In some embodiments, the columnar MEMS device may comprise at least two multiple-mass columns, each having at least three proof masses and being configured to sense rotation about a respective axis. The motion and mass of the proof masses may be controlled to achieve linear and rotational balancing of the MEMS device. The columnar MEMS device may further comprise one or more modular drive structures disposed alongside each multiple-mass column to facilitate displacement of the proof masses of a respective column. The MEMS devices described herein may be used to sense roll, yaw, and pitch angular rates.
US11193763B1
A level apparatus is disclosed including a body with a slide channel, a slider coupled with the body via the slide channel to slide parallel with respect to the body to extend a length of the level apparatus, a planar base surface on a side of the body to allow the level apparatus to rest on a work surface the orientation of which is to be measured, and a non-coplanar contact member at an endcap of the slider to rest on the work surface when the slider is in an extended position, wherein a tip of the non-coplanar contact member resting on the work surface is coplanar with the planar base surface.
US11193761B2
An automatic x-ray inspection system and method for inspecting objects, containing a cabinet, a path for an object to roll within the cabinet, from an entry point to an exit point, wherein the path utilizes gravity to alter the position and orientation of the object as it travels along the path, an x-ray imaging system to image the object along the path within the cabinet, wherein the x-ray imaging system has a field of view that captures views of the object along the object's travel, and a computer algorithm to determine a thickness of at least one of a shell and center of the object, wherein if a uniform thickness is determined, the object is tagged as passed or non-passed.
US11193739B1
An interactive target system including a first target assembly having a first target base operationally engaged with a first anchoring component, a first target surface rotatably engaged with, or fixed to, the first target base, a first spring adapted to bias the first target surface into the open position, a first electronics component having a first target GPS operationally engaged with the first target assembly, a first target strike status detector adapted to generate a first target strike count, and a first target electromagnetic signal transmitter and receiver, a first cooperating signal device having a first cooperating signal device GPS operationally engaged with the first cooperating signal device, a first cooperating signal device electromagnetic signal transmitter and receiver, a clock, and a first sound generator adapted to selectably generate a first notification sound.
US11193720B2
A gas turbine engine having a heat absorption device and an associated method are disclosed. The gas turbine engine includes a compressor having a compressor discharge nozzle, a combustor coupled to the compressor, a turbine coupled to the combustor and the compressor, a fluid flow passage fluidly coupling the compressor and the turbine and bypassing the combustor, and a heat absorption device disposed fluidly along the fluid flow passage at a first predefined location. The heat absorption device includes a casing having an inlet and an outlet, a flow path within the casing and extending between the inlet and the outlet, wherein the flow path directs an input bleed flow diverted from a fluid stream discharged from the compressor, and a phase change material hermetically sealed within the casing. The phase change material is separated from the flow path. The heat absorption device is configured to exchange heat between the phase change material and the input bleed flow to generate an output bleed flow of a different temperature than the input bleed flow and discharge the output bleed flow to a second predefined location different from the first predefined location.
US11193712B2
Machines, systems and methods for curing materials, including organic and nonorganic materials, are described. In particular, machines, systems and methods for machines, systems and methods for materials, such as organic plant materials or inorganic materials, including cannabis materials. In particular, the present invention relates to machines, systems and methods for an automated drying and curing chamber machine for both personal and commercial applications, wherein the machine uses customized variable settings and laminar air flow dynamics via negative pressure to ensure the optimal curing and drying environment for plant materials are described.
US11193710B2
A method and the apparatus for the cryogenic separation of air in an air separation plant which has a main air compressor, a main heat exchanger and a distillation column system with a high-pressure column and a low-pressure column. All of the feed air is compressed in the main air compressor to a first air pressure which is at least 3 bar higher than the operating pressure of the high-pressure column. A first part of the compressed total air flow, as first air flow at the first air pressure, is cooled and liquefied or pseudo-liquefied in the main heat exchanger, then expanded and introduced into the distillation column system. A second part of the compressed total air flow, as second air flow, is post-compressed in an air post-compressor to a second air pressure and at least part is further compressed in a first turbine-driven post-compressor to a third air pressure.
US11193705B2
A first valve is connected between a compressor and a first heat exchanger. A second valve is connected between the first heat exchanger and a expansion valve. When a start condition of the heating operation is satisfied and when a specific condition is satisfied, a controller starts supplying refrigerant from the compressor to the first valve, and then, opens the first and second valves. The specific condition is a condition indicating that a first heat exchange capability of the first heat exchanger is higher than a second heat exchange capability of a second heat exchanger. When the start condition of the heating operation is satisfied and when the specific condition is not satisfied, the controller opens the first and second valves, and then starts supplying the refrigerant from the compressor to the first valve.
US11193703B1
A method of operating a thermal system including at least a compressor, a condenser, a flow control valve, and at least one heat exchanger connected in a closed fluid loop charged with refrigerant. The method includes: regulating refrigerant pressure at a selected point within the fluid loop using a pressure regulating apparatus including: a main pressure regulator including a dome in fluid communication with a diaphragm that seals directly against at least one process void and at least one vent void; and a pilot pressure regulator in fluid communication with the dome so as to provide fluid thereto at a setpoint pressure. The setpoint pressure is maintained by the pilot pressure regulator utilizing refrigerant tapped from the fluid loop The refrigerant is tapped from a point upstream of the main pressure regulator and tapped refrigerant is returned to the fluid loop downstream of the main pressure regulator.
US11193701B2
A heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat transfer tubes arranged at predetermined intervals in a vertical direction, a tubular header that has a plurality of connection portions where the heat transfer tubes are connected to a side portion of the header and that communicates with each of the heat transfer tubes, a refrigerant pipe that communicates with the header at a middle portion of the header in the vertical direction, and a first bypass pipe having ends one of which communicates with a lower portion of the header and the other of which communicates with a middle portion of the refrigerant pipe. A distance between a communication position at which the first bypass pipe and the refrigerant pipe communicate with each other and an inner wall of the header is not more than double an inside diameter of the refrigerant pipe.
US11193700B2
A linear compressor includes a linear motor including a mover that reciprocates with respect to a stator; a compression unit configured to define a compression space in a cylinder while a piston connected to the mover reciprocates in the cylinder; a frame disposed outside of the cylinder; a plurality of discharge covers that define discharge spaces sequentially receiving refrigerant discharged from the compression space; and a gas bearing configured to guide part of refrigerant accommodated in a discharge any one of the plurality of discharge covers to lubricate between the cylinder and the piston with the refrigerant. The discharge cover structure is configured to restrict heat transfer between the discharge covers and the frame.
US11193695B2
The present disclosure provides a solar heat absorber including: an inlet through which a heat collecting medium enters the solar heat absorber; a passage member configured to be fluidly connected with the inlet such that the heat collecting medium enters the passage member through the inlet; and a collection member configured to be fluidly connected with the passage member such that the heat collecting medium enters the collection member through the passage member. In the solar heat absorber according to the present disclosure, the ceramic particles are used as the heat collecting medium. In addition, the present disclosure also provides a solar heat collecting system including the solar heat absorber, and a solar power generation system including the solar heat collecting system.
US11193693B2
A sound suppression chamber for a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) air handling assembly including a first end, a second end, and a middle portion. The first end includes an aperture that resonates with airflow from the HVAC air handling assembly, the airflow from the HVAC air handling assembly generating an incident sound wave corresponding to a target tone. The second end is closed and opposite the first end. The middle portion extends between the first end and the second end. The first end, the second end, and the middle portion defining a cavity of the sound suppression chamber. The sound suppression chamber generates a reflected wave that is 180 degrees out of phase from the incident sound wave and reflected into the HVAC air handling assembly through the aperture to suppress the target tone.
US11193692B2
An HVAC system includes a controller configured to receive weather forecast information including anticipated future outdoor temperatures. Based at least in part on the weather forecast information, the controller determines that test-initiation criteria are satisfied for testing operation of the HVAC system in a test mode. In response to determining that the test-initiation criteria are satisfied, the controller determines that current weather conditions are suitable for operating the HVAC system in the test mode for a test time period. The HVAC system is operated in the test mode for the test time period. Following operation of the HVAC system in the test mode for the test time period, the controller determines whether a predefined change in an indoor air temperature is achieved. If the predefined change in the indoor air temperature is achieved, the test is passed. Otherwise, the test is failed.
US11193691B1
This invention provides an electronic control for combination (fuel-fired boiler and electric heat pump) building space and water heating systems that optimizes operation of such within the operating temperature limits and heat capability of both the heat pump and boiler unit in the combination system. In a diagnostic mode, the controller assesses the ability of existing heat radiation systems in thermostatically controlled zones to meet heating loads at different operating temperature limits of the heat pump and boiler. The system/controller provides information to guide most effective deployment of system heat-dissipation devices. In its normal operating mode, the controller is capable of receiving input signals from zone thermostats, the boiler and heat pump, along with current outdoor temperature and other data, processing and evaluating inputs over time, and outputting control signals. The controller facilitates use of a combined heat pump and boiler heating system with minimum equipment, installation, and operational cost.
US11193689B2
A predictive heating system for a building zone includes building equipment, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, and a predictive heating controller. The building equipment is operable to affect an environmental condition of the building zone in a heating mode of operation and a cooling mode of operation. The temperature sensor is configured to measure a temperature of the building zone. The humidity sensor is configured to measure humidify of the building zone. The predictive heating controller is configured to predict an occupancy time of the building zone over a future time period, determine a dehumidification time period before the occupancy time of the building zone, determine a heating time period before the occupancy time of the building zone, operate the building equipment to dehumidify the building zone over the dehumidification time period, and operate the building equipment to heat the building zone over the heating time period.
US11193686B2
An HVAC system includes a reversing valve configured to receive compressed refrigerant and direct the refrigerant based on an operating mode of the HVAC system. One or more suction-side sensors measure suction-side properties associated with refrigerant provided to an inlet of the compressor. The suction-side properties comprise a suction-side temperature. One or more liquid-side sensors measure liquid-side properties associated with the refrigerant provided from an outlet of the compressor. A controller monitors the suction-side property and liquid-side property. The controller determines whether the suction-side property is greater than the liquid-side property. If the suction-side temperature is greater than the liquid-side temperature, the reversing valve is determined to be in an equalizing configuration. The equalizing configuration corresponds to a configuration in which the refrigerant provided from the outlet of the compressor is directed to the inlet of the compressor without first being directed to other components of the HVAC system.
US11193680B1
A personal mister system includes a manually operated mist delivery assembly having a trigger actuated spray bottle and water delivery tubing configured to deliver water from the spray bottle to a series of mister nozzles positioned along a portion of the water delivery tubing provided in a circular configuration. The portion of the water delivery tubing provided in a circular configuration is removably attachable to a user selected hat. A bottle carrier is further provided for carrying the spray bottle in a handsfree manner. The device supplies mist to a user to lower the body temperature of the user and provide immediate cooling effects.
US11193679B2
A system and a method are proposed for sanitizing air in premises. The system comprises an air compressor for sucking and then compressing the air supposedly comprising noxious and/or allergenic small items up to a denaturing pressure. The system is provided with a controllable pressure tank for denaturing there-inside the mentioned small items supplied with the compressed air. The tank controllably receives the compressed air from the compressor, heats and maintains the compressed air within a denaturing temperature range and discharges the compressed sanitized air to the premises, so that the discharged sanitized air cools down while expanding.
US11193675B2
The invention relates to an extractor fan apparatus for extracting cooking vapours downwards. The extractor fan apparatus comprises at least one fan for aspirating the cooking vapours, an inflow opening for the entry of the cooking vapours into the extractor fan apparatus, a filter seat which is arranged downstream of the at least one fan and on which at least one filter for filtering the cooking vapours can be arranged, and a filter replacement space which extends between the inflow opening and the at least one filter seat, the filter replacement space being configured for the reversible removal of the at least one filter from the filter seat through the inflow opening.
US11193674B2
A recirculation grill that includes a cooktop supported by a stationary frame. The grill includes an intake aperture defining a plurality of slats configured for receiving smoke from the cooktop; a waste tray compartment connected to the trough for receiving waste and grease and having a drawer for removing and cleaning; an interior plenum configured to create a vacuum force to pull air and smoke from the cooktop into the intake aperture; a diffuser positioned over the trash compartment and extending downwardly and outwardly; a tunnel configured to receive air flow from the plenum; and a blower housing enclosing a blower fan configured for pulling air and smoke from the cooktop into the intake aperture and through the plenum. The intake aperture, the plenum, and the blower are configured to achieve 100% visible smoke capture.
US11193670B2
A burner system includes a plurality of burners each including a nipple that is brass and a jet that is brass. The nipple in at least some of the burners has a first end that is open and a second end that is closed. The nipple has a side wall between the first end and the second end. The side wall defines a bore that extends through the first end to the second end. The first end, second end, and side wall of the nipple are of integral, one piece, construction free of joints. The nipple hole extending through the side wall and the jet is engaged with the hole.
US11193665B2
A water-cooled grow light apparatus has a housing, cooling components, and light components. The housing stores the cooling and light components. The cooling components regulate the heat produced by the light components. While the cooling components are regulating the heat, the light components power the water-cooled grow light apparatus and produce the full spectrum of light.
US11193663B2
A quick-connect modular LED lamp strip includes an H-shaped lamp body, a PC lampshade in a movably snap-fit connection with an upper portion of the lamp body, a plug wiring assembly connected with the lamp body, a printed circuit board (PCB) circuit board disposed inside the lamp body, and end caps disposed on each of head position of two ends of the lamp body and configured to block the two ends of the lamp body. The end caps are in an L-shaped structure, and each of the end caps includes an end cap insert configured to insert into the lamp body and at least one fixing column integrally formed with the end cap insert and configured to connect with the plug wiring assembly.
US11193655B2
A method is disclosed of modifying a lighting apparatus including a housing. The method involves detachably attaching at least one speaker to the housing when the at least one speaker is in the housing. At least one light source is detachably attachable to the housing independently from attachment of the at least one speaker to the housing. Lighting apparatuses are also disclosed.
US11193648B2
A light emitting device is provided comprising: a body; a base portion configured for mounting the light emitting device to a reflector of a headlight or taillight, the base portion being arranged at a first end portion of the body; at least one light-emitting diode arranged at or inside of the body; at least one infrared light source provided at the body and configured to emit infrared light; and a thermal barrier arranged in between the at least one infrared light source and the at least one LED and configured to block at least part of radiation emitted from the at least one infrared light source towards the at least one LED.
US11193644B2
The subject of the invention is a reflector device for a lighting module of a motor vehicle. The device includes a housing made of plastic, wherein the internal faces are metallized so as to reflect the light received. The housing on an external face of one of its walls has reception means able to house a support including at least one light source, the wall having an opening which leads toward the inside of the housing and which allows the light emitted by the light source or sources to propagate toward the inside of the housing. According to the provisions of the invention, the external face of the housing may be connected to ground potential so as to act as a shield against the electromagnetic waves emitted by various electronic components.
US11193643B2
The invention relates to a light module for a motor vehicle headlamp, comprising: at least one light source (1) and at least one projection device (2), the projection device (2) having an entry optical unit (21) and an exit optical unit (22), the entry optical unit (21) being designed to form an intermediate image from light emitted by the at least one light source (1) in an intermediate image plane, which lies between the entry optical unit (21) and the exit optical unit (22) and is substantially perpendicular to an optical axis of the projection device (2), and the exit optical unit (22) being designed to image the intermediate image into a region in front of the light module in the form of a light distribution of a first predefined type, at least one additional light source (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) being provided, which at least one additional light source (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) is designed to emit light between the entry optical unit (21) and the exit optical unit (22); the exit optical unit (22) being designed to image the light emitted by the at least one additional light source (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) into the region in front of the light module in the form of a light distribution of a second predefined type; the entry optical unit (21) and the at least one additional light source (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) being designed in such a way and being associated with each other in such a way that neither the at least one additional light source (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) nor the light emitted by the at least one additional light source (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) changes the intermediate image.
US11193636B2
A retrofit LED system for a lighting system allowing ease of replacement or installation of an LED lighting system in a grid ceiling. An adapter for providing easy installation of an LED lighting system within a room. A driver for operating directly from any standard AC voltage.
US11193633B2
A graphene heat-dissipation LED lamp, comprising an LED light source module, a power supply module, a lamp housing (9) and a waterproof power strip (22). The LED light source module is connected to the power supply module by means of the power strip (22) to form an LED module assembly. A graphene heat-conducting material is added to the LED module, so that the heat conduction efficiency is improved and the service life is prolonged. In addition, the lighting performance of the LED lamp is further improved. By configuring independent modules and using a quick connector, the LED lamp can be quickly mounted without a disassembling tool.
US11193632B2
A hydrogen filling system of the present invention is provided with: a pressure accumulator; a pipe connecting the pressure accumulator and a hydrogen tank on a vehicle; a flow volume control valve, a pressure sensor, and a flow volume sensor with which the pipe is fitted; and a station ECU which operates the control valve under a predetermined filling condition. A gas filling method for filling hydrogen gas into the tank from the accumulator is provided with: a step of, after filling of the hydrogen gas has been started, calculating, using a detected value from the pressure sensor when the flow volume of hydrogen gas in the pipe has decreased, the value of a pressure loss coefficient correlated with a pressure loss caused in the pipe; and a step of changing the filling condition to a condition determined on the basis of the value of the pressure loss coefficient.
US11193628B2
A collapsible leg assembly that includes a first leg having an upper portion and a lower portion; a second leg having an upper portion and a lower portion; a crossbar extending between the lower portions of the first and second legs, wherein the crossbar further includes a first section and a second section that are either flexibly connected to one another or detachably connected to one another; an upper leg receptacle that is adapted to receive the upper portion of the first leg in a hinged manner and the upper portion of the second leg in a hinged manner; a first lower leg receptacle that is adapted to receive the bottom portion of the first leg in a fixed manner and the first section of the crossbar in hinged manner; and a second lower leg receptacle that is adapted to receive the bottom portion of the second leg in a fixed manner and the second section of the crossbar in hinged manner.
US11193627B2
The present disclosure relates to a stand having an improved structure to stably support a display module and a display apparatus including the same. The stand includes a base, a support bar on which the display module is mounted, the support bar including an opening and being coupled to the base, and a movement preventing unit configured to reduce a gap between the base and the support bar and including a moving block configured to protrude through the opening to be in contact with an inner surface of the base.
US11193620B2
An isolation element for a riser clamp has two opposed clamp halves made of metal strip. Each of said clamp halves has a semi-circular section placed opposite each other against a riser pipe extending through a passage hole in a floor. The clamp halves have at the ends of its semi-circular section outwardly extending clamp flanges to be tightened towards the corresponding opposing clamp flanges of the other clamp half. The riser clamp is in use supported from beneath by a support structure. The isolation element includes a profile of vibration isolating material including a pad portion, which pad portion in use is located below the corresponding clamp flange for resiliently supporting it, and further including at least one upstanding portion extending along the corresponding clamp flange, wherein said upstanding portion is attachable to the corresponding clamp flange.
US11193616B2
A hose connector has: a cap, a connecting pipe and an assembly pipe. The cap has an inner ring and an outer ring, and the inner ring is provided with an inner threaded hole. The cap further has a socket hole connected with the inner threaded hole, the outer ring is provided with an outer threaded section. The connecting pipe has an inserting portion at one end and a first threaded portion at another end. The inserting portion has a neck section and a stopping ring. The inserting portion is disposed in the socket hole of the cap. The stopping ring comprises at least one protrusion facing the groove. The assembly pipe has a through hole and a convex ring at one end and a second threaded portion at another end. The second threaded portion of the assembly pipe engages with the inner threaded hole of the cap.
US11193615B1
Techniques for implementing a pipeline system that includes a segment and a pipe fitting. The pipe segment includes an inner barrier layer, a first intermediate layer in an inner tubing annulus, an intermediate barrier layer disposed around the inner tubing annulus, a second intermediate layer in an outer tubing annulus, and an outer barrier layer disposed around the outer tubing annulus. The pipe fitting includes a fitting body that defines a fitting bore, a fitting jacket secured to the fitting body to define a tubing cavity, in which the fitting jacket is conformally deformed around the outer barrier layer of the pipe segment, and an annulus divider ring secured to the fitting jacket to divide the tubing cavity into an outer fitting annulus and an inner fitting annulus, in which the annulus divider ring is conformally deformed around the intermediate barrier layer of the pipe segment.
US11193611B2
A pipe coupling apparatus includes a flexible tubular body portion having a body portion a plurality of annular flanges projecting radially outward from the body portion and defining a plurality of annular recesses around the body portion. The body portion can be radially compressed at each end to different degrees, thereby allowing pipes with different diameters to be coupled. The body portion includes a plurality of rods disposed within the material of the body portion. When the ends of the body portion are compressed at different amounts, an intermediate portion of the body portion is tapered, and the rods bend. Clamp bands may be retained within the recesses and may provide the clamping force to radially compress the ends of the body portion to the desired amount.
US11193604B2
A waterproof, mildew resistant, cover for a water backflow prevention apparatus is provided that provides protection of the apparatus's control from UV damage is provided. The cover is constructed from a closed-cell polymeric foam and can be cut to fit when installed. The cover can be anchored to stakes in the ground to prevent dislodgment by wind or animals. The installed cover's open end can take advantage of heat in the ground to maximize the cover's internal temperature when the cover is exposed to low air temperatures.
US11193603B2
A pressure relief valve with a trigger mechanism having a plurality of tines on the ejector which engage with a fixed stop. The tine ends and/or the fixed stop are chamfered. The valve opens when the force from the contained fluid exceeds the force of the spring plus the force necessary to move the tines out of alignment with the fixed stop. The trigger pressure of the valve can be adjusted by adjusting the geometry of the tines. This is accomplished by using interchangeable tine sections on the ejector. Pressure is contained by a primary seal located on the outer diameter of the ejector.
US11193602B2
A pressure relief valve for a gas pressure regulator includes: a deformable and gas-tight, laminar element; an outflow channel that allows the passage of the gas between one side and the other of the laminar element including a precisely-sized hole; a shutter removably associated with the laminar element through a coupler that defines, for the shutter, a closed position of the outflow channel and an open position of the outflow channel; an elastic element interposed between the shutter and the laminar element in order to push the shutter towards the closed position. The couple includes a through hole belonging to the laminar element and a shaft slidingly inserted in the through hole, and the shutter is operatively connected to the shaft. The outflow channel is distinct from the through hole, as sealing is provided to prevent the passage of the gas between the through hole and the shaft.
US11193601B2
Check valve assemblies for fluid flow sets and devices are provided. The check valve assembly includes a housing having an inlet body and an outlet body. The inlet body includes a fluid inlet, a first seal bead having a first height, a second seal bead having a second height and a central channel. The outlet body includes a fluid outlet and a stem having a centering post, the centering post received by the central channel of the inlet body. A seal has an inner ring with a first thickness and an outer ring with a second thickness less than the first thickness. The inner ring is engaged with the first seal bead and the outer ring is engaged with the second seal bead in a fully sealed position of the check valve assembly. Fluid flow sets and methods for manufacturing check valve assemblies are also provided.
US11193595B2
A double-seat valve includes a housing having a passage between first and second connections. First and second valve disks are arranged in a housing internal space. A leakage space formed in the passage in the valve closed position is sealed off by the second valve disk. A hollow rod connected to the first valve disk has a leakage channel connecting the leakage space and a housing part. A cleaning gap is formed between the second valve disk and a passage wall. A housing opening is sealed with a diaphragm that separates the housing part from the internal space. A section of the first valve disk is received in an opening contour in the passage in the valve closed position, and delimits a cut-out in the first valve disk, in which the second valve disk is received in the valve open position.
US11193592B1
A magnetic fluid sealing device includes: a housing; a shaft rotatably penetrating through the housing; a first shaft sleeve made of a magnetic conductive material, and fitted over the shaft; a plurality of pole shoes arranged in the housing and fitted over the shaft and the first shaft sleeve, an inner circumferential surface of the pole shoe being provided with a plurality of pole teeth arranged at intervals in an axial direction of the shaft, the shaft and a first part of the plurality of pole teeth being arranged at intervals in a radial direction of the shaft to form a first gap, the first shaft sleeve and a second part of the plurality of pole teeth being arranged at intervals in the radial direction of the shaft to form a second gap; and a permanent magnet arranged in the housing and fitted over the shaft.
US11193591B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a system comprising: a rotatable seal runner, a stationary sealing member that includes a base and a nose that extends from the base in an axial direction and interfaces with the seal runner, a carrier that supports the sealing member, and a tab coupled to the carrier, where the tab extends from the carrier in the axial direction towards the seal runner.
US11193576B2
An oil guidance arrangement for a transmission housing (1) of a vehicle includes at least one annular oil slinger (2) for collecting radially outward flowing oil. A guide area (3) for generating a laminar oil flow is closed in sections and is provided on a circumferential area of the oil slinger (2). A transmission housing (1) includes the oil guidance arrangement. The oil slinger (2) of the oil guidance arrangement is attached to a transmission housing-side centering plate (10) and surrounds a clutch (6). By rotation of the clutch (6), oil is guidable radially outward to the guide area (3) of the oil slinger (2).
US11193575B2
A modular gear transmission and associated systems. The modular gear transmission has an assembled configuration, and the modular gear transmission includes a first transmission body and a first transmission gear set. The first transmission gear set includes a first protruding gear, a first intermediate gear set including at least one intermediate transmission gear, and a first transmission socket. The first transmission body is configured so that, when the modular gear transmission is in the assembled configuration, the first transmission body engages the first transmission gear set to hold the first transmission gear set in a rotatable configuration. The first protruding gear is configured so that, when the modular gear transmission is in the assembled configuration, the first protruding gear protrudes from the first transmission body and is rotatably engaged with the first intermediate gear set, the first protruding gear configured to rotate around a first referential axis of rotation.
US11193573B1
A differential includes a unitized double row angular contact ball bearing supporting a pinion stub shaft. The bearing includes two inner rings which are slightly separated before assembly. As the stub shaft is inserted into the bearing, one of the inner rings is pushed against a land such as the back of the pinion gear. Pushing the inner rings together ensures a suitable pre-load. The inner rings have an interference fit with the stub shaft such that friction maintains the pre-load without a nut. The bearing and shaft are then inserted between halves of a two-piece case.
US11193570B2
The variable speed transmission uses multiple fluid couplings to provide a sturdy, durable variable output ratio transmission by using hydraulic fluid to vary the output. Each fluid coupling has an independent output shaft driven by the respective fluid coupling turbine. Output shafts drive alternate gears (i.e., first and third at a first fluid coupling and second and fourth at a second fluid coupling). This configuration alternates gear shifts between the fluid couplings allowing the next gear up or down to be engaged before disengaging the current gear, for uninterrupted gear changes in both up and down shifting. A fifth gear would be driven by a gear connected to the fluid coupling input shafts. Gears could be engaged with hydraulic clutches or syncromesh gears. This combined with variable slip fluid couplings allows for better torque and control.
US11193568B2
A gearbox for vehicles that include a split gearbox, a main gearbox and a range gearbox. The range gearbox is shiftable into a low range gear, a high range gear and a reverse gear. The range gearbox includes a planetary gear, which may be shifted into a reverse gear. The split gearbox and the main gearbox are together arranged to have a combined ratio spread larger than 5, in that the split gearbox and the main gearbox are together arranged to have a combined largest gear ratio over 4:1, and in that the planetary gear in the range gearbox has a gear ratio less than 4:1 when shifted into the reverse gear.
US11193564B2
The invention relates to a tensioner (100) comprising: a hollow body (10) provided with a bottom (12), said bottom comprising a central zone (120), a peripheral zone (121) raised relative to the central zone and an intermediate zone (122) an axis (30) two guide means (40, 50) for said axis two cups (60, 124), the cup (124) comprising a first portion (124A) in front of the peripheral zone and a second portion (124B) in front of the intermediate zone a spring (70) held between the cups and arranged around the second guide means so that there is a gap between the spring and the second guide means a valve (80) with a channel (90), the channel opening in front of the second portion of the cup (124) away from said second portion.
US11193562B1
An electric powertrain includes a first electric motor that has an uninterrupted connection with a drive shaft of a vehicle. The electric powertrain further includes a first gear train that has an interruptible connection with the drive shaft. In one form, this interruptible connection includes a second carrier and a clutch engagement member. The electric powertrain further includes a sun gear in the form of a ring gear and planet gears in the form of a first output shaft. To provide a compact configuration, the first electric motor and the first gear train are sandwiched between the sun gear and the planet gears.
US11193553B2
A vibration damper may comprise a damper tube filled at least partially with damping liquid. A piston rod is movable to and fro in the damper tube, and a working piston is movable with the piston rod. The working piston may divide an interior space of the damper tube into a piston rod-side working space and a working space distal the piston rod. A piston rod attachment may include an attachment element, a bracing element, and a wedge element. On a side that faces away from the working piston, the piston rod may have a wedge element cut-out for partially receiving the wedge element in a braced state. The attachment element may be connected to the bracing element such that the attachment element braces the bracing element with respect to the piston rod via the wedge element arranged in the wedge element cut-out.
US11193550B2
Disclosed is a method for optimizing feature parameters of straight grooves of a wet friction element and relates to the technical field of heavy-duty vehicle transmission. By using the method, the feature parameters of the straight grooves of the wet friction element can be improved by optimization, and the thermoelastic stability of the wet friction element can be improved.
US11193548B2
A brake assembly for a wheel on a vehicle includes a brake disc, a caliper assembly operably coupled to the brake disc, a brake line fluidly coupled to the caliper assembly, and a brake shield positioned adjacent a portion of the caliper assembly. The brake shield includes a first arm positioned on a first side of a portion of the brake disc and a second arm positioned on a second side of the portion of the brake disc. The brake disc further includes a recess configured to receive a portion of the brake line.
US11193544B2
A bearing including a body having a first axial end and a second axial end; and at least one flange projecting radially from the second axial end of the body, where the at least one flange includes a first region, second region, and a stepped transition region between the first and second regions, where the second region is elevated axially above the first region so as to protrude axially outwardly, where 1) the second region extends partially circumferentially around the flange to form at least one segment, and/or 2) the first region extends from the body to the stepped transition region.
US11193541B1
A self-lubricating SLZ-type tow dolly assembly provides a self-lubricating bearing sleeve operable in an SLZ-type tow dolly. This serves to negate the need for grease fittings and manually greasing of the spindle bushing. The self-lubricating bearing sleeve press fit into a spindle bushing disposed in a spindle assembly to lubricate the spindle bolt. This facilitates rotational motion against the spindle bolt. In one embodiment, the self-lubricating bearing sleeve is a self-lubricating Igus M250 bearing sleeve that press fits into dolly pivot bushings. Rotational and linear motion creates pressure that discharges incremental amounts of the lubricant. Thus, self-lubricating bearing sleeve serves as a self-lubricating, pivot-point bearing sleeve. The self-lubricating bearing sleeve may be a plastic component with a lubricant integral therein. This allows for self-lubricating of bushing and spindle components during rotation of spindle assembly. In alternative embodiments, a trip assembly and a spindle assembly operate in the self-lubricating bearing sleeve.
US11193528B2
A bearing pad for a tilting-pad bearing includes a first member having a bearing surface and a second member disposed on a back surface side of the first member. At least one of a back surface of the first member or a front surface of the second member facing the back surface of the first member has a recess for forming a cavity between the first member and the second member. Preferably, the bearing pad further includes a support member disposed on a back surface side of the second member and tiltably supporting the first member and the second member, and the recess is formed over at least a part of an installation range of the support member in a plan view of the bearing pad.
US11193526B1
In an example, a compliant shaft enclosure support system for coupling to a shaft enclosure surrounding a shaft includes a bar having a first member slidably coupled to a second member. The bar is oriented along the pitch axis of the shaft. A first bar end of the bar is rotatably connected, around the roll axis and pitch axis of the shaft, to the shaft enclosure at a first connection. A second bar end of the bar is rotatably connected, around the roll axis and pitch axis, to the structure at a second connection. A link is rotatably connected, around the roll axis, at a first link end to the bar, at an intermediate location spaced from the first and second bar ends. The link is rotatably connected, around the pitch axis, at a second link end to the shaft enclosure at a third connection spaced from the first connection.
US11193523B2
A direct tension indicating washer includes a first surface having a protuberance formed thereon; a second surface having an indentation formed opposite the protuberance; an indicating material positioned in the indentation; and a channel leading from the indentation to an outer diameter of the direct tension indicating washer; wherein the indicating material is weather-resistant.
US11193520B2
A fastener assembly for use with one or more workpieces. The fastener assembly can be a single-sided (i.e., blind) fastener assembly in which the fastener assembly is inaccessible from one side of the workpiece(s). In this regard, the workpiece(s) can make-up an enclosed component, for example. The fastener assembly can have a fastening end, such as a threaded stud, for securement with a distinct component that is otherwise detached from the fastener assembly. The workpiece(s) can be composed of a carbon fiber composite material, an aluminum material, or another type of material.
US11193512B2
There are disclosed a method and a lifting mechanism for actively damping in mobile working machines vibrations which may occur as a result of raised attachments during travel. The method or the lifting mechanism has a prediction or a predictor for estimating the future vibration. The prediction is preferably carried out with a recursive least squares algorithm. The mobile working machine may, for example, be a tractor.
US11193509B2
The fluid control valve comprises: a valve seat constituting a part of a valve chamber; a valve body that is installed in the valve chamber and moves in a contacting/separating direction with respect to the valve seat; an actuator configured to move the valve body; and a plunger that transfers power of the actuator to the valve body. The valve body and the plunger are in contact with each other via an inclination suppressing protrusion configured to suppress an inclination of the plunger, the inclination being caused by contact between the valve body and the valve seat.
US11193505B2
An accumulator piston configured to be situated within an accumulator bore of a housing for use in vehicle transmissions. The accumulator piston including a casing, the casing including a top surface, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, and a side wall situated between the top surface and the bottom surface, a pin guide protruding from the top surface of the casing, the pin guide including a centrally disposed aperture, the aperture configured to receive an elongated pin, and a sealing member encircling the side wall of the casing such that the sealing member covers any exposed surface of the side wall.
US11193500B2
It is possible to provide a blower device in which the fixing position of the blower device is easily changed and the increase in cost is greatly suppressed. A blower device 100 in which a flange 201 having a fixing attaching foot 200 is attached to rails 108 and 109 formed on an outer circumferential surface of a casing 103, and a retaining block 205 is attached to the flange 201 to secure the flange 201 to the casing 103, the retaining block 205 includes a first block, a second block, and a connecting portion having smaller width and connecting the first block and the second block, and the first block and the second block each include a retaining leg portion and a latching leg portion, and a projecting portion is formed on a side surface of the retaining leg portion.
US11193484B2
An automotive liquid pendulum vane pump includes a pump housing, a rotor ring with circular undercut recesses, a rotor hub with vane slots, and pendulum vanes which connect the rotor ring and the rotor hub. Each vane slot has a substantially plane contact wall slot with a tangential contact nose in an opening region and a diving recess. Each pendulum vane has a circular pendulum head which defines a pendulum hinge which corresponds to a circular undercut recess, a circular pendulum foot which is radially shiftable and pivotable in a vane slot, a vane leg which connects the circular pendulum head and the circular pendulum foot, and a contact path with a contact path surface which contacts the tangential contact nose in a rotational contact sector. A radial inner end of the contact path surface defines an inner tangential projection which temporarily dives into the diving recess.
US11193482B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an air compressing apparatus capable of establishing a sufficient air-filling rate while reducing noise at the initiation of operations. To solve this problem, in the present invention, the air compressing apparatus comprises a compressor body that compresses air, a motor that drives the compressor body, an inverter that controls the rotation speed of the motor, a control circuit connected to the inverter, and a pressure sensor that detects the pressure of air compressed in the compressor body, wherein the control circuit controls operation of the compressor body by operating at a low speed activation mode that operates the compressor body at a low speed rotational frequency lower than a maximum rotational speed when the air compressing apparatus is activated, and on the basis of a pressure value detected by the pressure sensor and elapsed time from activation, switching from the low speed activation mode to a normal operating mode that operates at variable frequencies including a maximum rotational frequency.
US11193479B2
A fluid system includes a fluid active region, a fluid channel, a convergence chamber, a sensor and plural valves. The fluid active region includes at least one fluid-guiding unit. The fluid-guiding unit is enabled under control to transport fluid to be discharged out through an outlet aperture. The fluid channel is in communication with the outlet aperture of the fluid active region, and has plural branch channels for splitting the fluid discharged from the fluid active region. The convergence chamber is in communication with the fluid channel. The sensor is disposed in the fluid channel for measuring fluid. The valves each of which is disposed in the corresponding branch channel, wherein the fluid is discharged out through the branch channels according to opened/closed states of the valves under control. The fluid system is capable of acquiring required flow rate, pressure and amount of the fluid to be transported.
US11193476B2
A scroll compressor is provided which comprises: a housing; a driving motor; an orbiting scroll rotated by the driving motor; a fixed scroll; a suction port provided in the housing and suctioning a refrigerant; an oil separator in the housing at one side of the fixed scroll; and a discharge port for discharging, to the outside of the housing, the refrigerant from which oil is separated in the oil separator. The scroll compressor includes an intermediate housing; a back pressure chamber in the intermediate housing at one side of the orbiting scroll, first and second back pressure seal members in the intermediate housing; a plurality of anti-rotation rings in the intermediate housing; and a plurality of anti-rotation pins at the orbiting scroll to be inserted into each of the plurality of anti-rotation rings.
US11193470B2
A method for operating a wind turbine, in particular at a location characterized by a cold climate is provided. The method includes, specifying an air density at a location of the wind turbine, setting a blade angle of an adjustable rotor blade based on an output power, torque and/or rotor speed. The method includes setting the blade angle as a function of a at pitch characteristic curve which specifies the blade angle as a function of the output power, the torque and/or the rotor speed and as a function of the air density. According to the pitch characteristic curve, the blade angle has a minimum as a function of the air density in a region of a reference density of an atmosphere at the location which is characterized by a cold climate.
US11193469B2
In the case of wind turbines 10, deviations from the optimum operating state result in output losses. This applies, in particular, to angular deviations 62 in the alignment of the nacelle 14, and therefore of the rotor axis 28, relative to the wind direction 60. The invention relates to a wind turbine 10, and to a method for operating such a wind turbine, which wind turbine and method enable the nacelle 14 to be corrected, in respect of the wind direction, both on the basis of wind power and by motor.
US11193460B2
This multi-cylinder engine intake structure is provided with a fresh air distribution chamber into which a plurality of fresh air distribution openings communicating with the individual intake ports are opened, and a gas collection chamber. The gas collection chamber includes a communication region into which a first communication opening communicating with the fresh air distribution chamber is opened, a first mixture region into which an air inlet and an EGR gas inlet are opened and which is positioned upstream of the communication region in a flow direction of a mixture gas of air and EGR gas, and a second mixture region positioned downstream of the communication region in the flow direction of the mixture gas.
US11193457B2
An EGR gas distributor includes a gas chamber, a gas inflow passage to introduce EGR gas on its upstream side, gas outflow passages to discharge the EGR gas to branch pipes on their downstream side. An inner wall on a downstream side of the gas chamber is divided into downstream-side divided walls corresponding to the respective gas outflow passages, and the downstream-side divided walls are curved or slanted to be of protrusion-like shape protruding toward the corresponding gas outflow passages. Downstream-side dividing ridges are provided each between the adjacent downstream-side divided walls. An inner wall on the upstream side of the gas chamber is placed to face the downstream-side inner wall and provided with at least one upstream-side ridge protruding toward the downstream-side divided walls in each area corresponding to the downstream-side divided walls.
US11193451B2
The utility model provides a gas idling transition passage structure for oil and gas dual-purpose carburetor, comprising a carburetor body 1 and a mixing chamber 4; a choke valve 5 and a throttle valve 9 are disposed in the mixing chamber 4 in the order of the air flow direction; a gas intake pipe 2 for supplying gas to the mixing chamber 4 is disposed on the carburetor body 1; a first air inlet pipe 7 and a second air inlet pipe 8 are disposed in the carburetor body 1 in parallel; an opening of an outlet end of the second air inlet pipe 8 is located in the mixing chamber 4 and the position of the outlet end of the second air inlet pipe 8 is at the intersection of an outer circle and the mixing chamber 4 when the throttle valve 9 is closed.
US11193445B2
A fuel pump pressure-feeds fuel to an accumulation container that accumulates high-pressure fuel. A fuel injection valve injects high-pressure fuel accumulated in the accumulation container to an internal combustion engine. A fuel pressure sensor detects a fuel pressure in the accumulation container. A fuel pressure acquisition unit acquires the fuel pressure detected with the fuel pressure sensor. A reference computation unit computes a required injection quantity and an injection start timing based on an operation state of the internal combustion engine at a predetermined reference computation timing, which is set for each combustion cycle of the internal combustion engine, and further to compute an injection time period based on a fuel pressure acquired by the fuel pressure acquisition unit at the reference computation timing. A correction unit corrects the injection time period based on the fuel pressure acquired by the fuel pressure acquisition unit at the injection start timing.
US11193437B2
A control device transmits an opening degree command amount to an actuator to command an opening degree of a sealing valve. The control device sets a pressure difference between a tank-side pressure and a canister-side pressure to a specified value or more. The control device causes a pressure variable device to change the canister-side pressure to form a state in which the pressure difference becomes equal to or higher than a specified value while the sealing valve is closed. The control device learns a valve opening start amount based on the opening degree command amount when the tank-side pressure changes in response to the opening degree command amount that gradually increases from zero. The control device determines the opening degree command amount based on the valve opening start amount, which has been learned.
US11193432B2
An internal combustion engine, a method of operating the internal combustion engine, and a controller are disclosed. The method may be implemented in part by the controller and comprises determining a shaft angle of an engine shaft; supplying, to an ion sensor fluidly coupled to a combustion chamber of the engine a low voltage at a beginning of a combustion cycle to generate an ion sensor current and a high voltage during an ionization voltage window based at least in part on the shaft angle, wherein the low voltage is configured to prevent premature ignition of fuel in the combustion chamber and the high voltage exceeds the low voltage and is configured to increase the ion sensor current above a current threshold.
US11193431B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods in interoperating with multiple clean energy sources, such as pneumatic energy, electrical energy, hydrogen energy and steam energy, with engine configurations employing theses clean energy sources dynamically and synchronously. Further embodiments including fossil fuel energies.
US11193427B2
A bleed valve for an air plenum includes a valve body having a poppet seat, a poppet supported by the valve body and movable relative to the poppet seat, and piston slideable relative to the poppet and movable relative to the poppet between an extended position and a retracted position. Gas turbine engines and methods of bleeding fluid from gas turbine engines are also described.
US11193423B2
An aircraft gas turbine engine has an engine core having a turbine, compressor, and core shaft connecting the turbine to the compressor, the turbine being the lowest pressure turbine and having a turbine length being the distance between the roots of the most upstream turbine blade at its leading edge and of the most downstream turbine blade trailing edge, and the compressor being the lowest pressure compressor of the engine; a fan located upstream of the engine; and a gearbox receiving an input from the core shaft and outputting drive to the fan. The engine core has three bearings to support the core shaft, the three bearings having a forward bearing and two rearward bearings, with a minor span defined as the distance between the two rearward bearings, and wherein further a minor span to turbine length ratio of: minor span tu rbine length is equal to or less than 1.05.
US11193415B2
Methods are provided for engines. In one example, method, at higher engine load, cool compressed air is drawn into an engine via an air intake passage, and at lower engine load, ambient air is drawn into the engine via a duct while retaining cooled compressed air in the air intake passage. The compressed air may be released from the air intake passage based on heat transferred to the compressed air during the lower engine load, in at least one example.
US11193409B2
A method is provided for managing the light-off of a 3-way catalytic converter that is located in an exhaust line of a petrol engine having a plurality of cylinders with each cylinder having at least one exhaust valve. The method includes calculating a value of enthalpy of exhaust gases to make it possible to determine a quantity of heat supplied to the three-way catalyst, determining a threshold enthalpy value signaling the light-off of the catalyst, and stopping of activation of the three-way catalyst upon determining the value of the enthalpy that was calculated has reached the threshold enthalpy value.
US11193408B2
The present disclosure relates to a control unit (8) for controlling reactivation of a lean NOx trap (LNT) disposed in an exhaust system (3) connected to an internal combustion engine (2), the control unit (8). The control unit (8) has at least one processor (11) configured to generate a reactivate flag (RF) for the LNT (6). A memory device (12) having instructions stored therein is coupled to the at least one processor (11). The at least one processor (11) is configured to generate the reactivate flag (RF) when the exhaust gas supplied to the LNT (6) is lean and an LNT temperature (TLNT) is greater than or equal to a predefined LNT temperature threshold (T1). The present disclosure also relates to a method of controlling reactivation of the LNT (6). The present disclosure also relates to a vehicle comprising reactivation control apparatus.
US11193398B2
A friction member is clamped between a driven shaft of an internal combustion engine and a vane rotor and includes an oil passage hole. The oil passage hole communicates between a first oil passage of the driven shaft a second oil passage of the vane rotor. Each of positioning arrangements includes a primary engaging portion of the vane rotor and a secondary engaging portion of the friction member. The positioning arrangements are configured to limit relative rotation between the vane rotor and the friction member in a communicating state where the first oil passage and the second oil passage are communicated with each other through the oil passage hole.
US11193380B2
An integrated strut and turbine vane nozzle (ISV) has inner and outer annular duct walls defining an annular flow passage therebetween. Circumferentially spaced-apart struts extend radially across the flow passage. Circumferentially spaced-apart vanes also extend radially across the flow passage and define a plurality of inter-vane passages. Each of the struts is integrated to an associated one of the vanes to form therewith an integrated strut-vane airfoil. The inter-vane passages on either side of the integrated strut-vane airfoil may be adjusted for aerodynamic considerations. The vanes may be made separately from the struts and manufactured such as to cater for potential misalignments between the parts.
US11193379B2
A turbofan having a nacelle including a slider mobile in translation between advanced and retracted positions to open a window between a duct and the exterior, a plurality of blades, each being mobile in rotation on the slider between stowed and deployed positions, and a maneuvering system that moves each blade and includes, for each blade, a shaft mobile in rotation on the slider and on which the blade is fixed, an arm having a first end fixed to the shaft and a second end, an arc which is coaxial with the longitudinal axis and is rotatably mounted on the slider, about the longitudinal axis, a lever mounted in articulated fashion between the arc and the second end of the arm, and an actuation system which rotates the arc in one direction and in the other.
US11193367B2
A method of assessing cross-well interference and/or optimizing hydrocarbon production from a reservoir by obtaining low frequency DAS and DTS data and pressure data from a monitor well, when both the monitor and production well are shut-in, and then variably opening the production well for production, and detecting the temperature and pressure fluctuations that indication cross-well interference, and localizing the interference along the well length based on the low frequency DAS data. This information can be used to optimize well placement, completion plans, fracturing plans, and ultimately optimize production from a given reservoir.
US11193363B2
Various implementations described herein refer to an apparatus having an instrument cluster with accelerometers and gyroscopic sensors. The apparatus may include a controller that communicates with the instrument cluster, receives measurement data from the accelerometers and the gyroscopic sensors, and acquires a computed tool orientation of a drilling tool based on the measurement data from the accelerometers and the gyroscopic sensors. The controller may generate tool steering commands for the drilling tool based on a difference between a planned tool orientation and the computed tool orientation.
US11193358B2
A firing head assembly for use with a perforating gun is described. The firing head assembly includes a tubular housing, first and second pistons, and a compressible member arranged within a lumen of the tubular housing and positioned between the first and second pistons. According to an aspect, the assembly includes a plurality of upper locking arms and lower locking arms that engage with locking members formed in the tubular housing. The firing head assembly further includes upper and lower shear washers arranged at the second opening of the tubular body, in a sandwich type configuration with respect to the second piston. Pressures within the firing head assembly may be adjusted to activate the firing head assembly to either trigger an explosive reaction or to not trigger the explosive reaction.
US11193350B2
A device can include a collar positioned in a wellbore that can include an outer wall. The outer wall can define an inner area of the collar and can prevent fluid flow between the inner area of the collar and an outer area of the collar during a hydraulic fracturing process. The collar can be removed or dissolved to form a flow path to allow production fluid to flow between the inner area of the collar and the outer area of the collar subsequent to the hydraulic fracturing process.
US11193341B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for monitoring drilling fluids in real time. One method includes circulating a drilling fluid into and out of a borehole, generating a first output signal with a first optical computing device arranged near an outlet of the borehole, the first optical computing device having a first integrated computational element configured to optically interact with the drilling fluid, receiving the first output signal with a signal processor communicably coupled to the first optical computing device, determining the concentration of a gas present in the drilling fluid at the outlet of the borehole with the signal processor and generating a resulting output signal, conveying the resulting output signal to one or more peripheral devices, and adjusting one or more drilling or completion parameters in response to the concentration of the gas present in the drilling fluid.
US11193339B2
A disconnect tool can be part of a production string in a wellbore. The disconnect tool can include a disconnect sub and a disconnect receptacle. The disconnect sub can be inserted into the disconnect receptacle such that the disconnect sub is concentric with the disconnect receptacle. The disconnect sub and the disconnect receptacle can include bands having multiple electrically conductive sections separated by an electrically insulating material. Insertion of the disconnect sub into the disconnect receptacle cause the electrically conductive sections of the disconnect sub to contact the electrically conductive sections of the disconnect receptacle, thereby completing multiple electrical connections between a control system uphole of the disconnect tool and one or more devices downhole from the disconnect tool along the lower portion of the production string. The disconnect tool allows the upper portion of the production string to be removed leaving devices in the lower production string undisturbed.
US11193334B2
A downhole component including a first portion; a second portion; a controlled failure structure between the first portion and second portion. A method for improving efficiency in downhole components.
US11193331B2
A drilling system and method of drilling a wellbore. The drilling system includes a tubing, an orientation device affixed to the tubing, a drilling sub having a housing having a first section and a second section, wherein the first section is coupled to a movable element of the orientation device, a shaft disposed in the housing, the shaft coupled to the drive and to the drill bit, and a pivot member coupled to the first section and second section of the housing. The second section of the housing tilts relative to the first section of the housing about the pivot member when the orientation device is rotationally stationary to allow drilling of a curved section of the wellbore. Rotation of the housing via the orientation device reduces the tilt between the first section and the second section to allow for drilling of a straight section of the wellbore.
US11193315B2
A friction brake including a shaft having an input end and an output end, at least one lock collar, at least one tolerance ring disposed between the lock collar and the shaft providing an interference fit therebetween, and a locking component adapted to engage the lock collar to prevent rotation of the lock collar.
US11193306B2
An exemplary system includes a mechanical key and an access control device. The access control device includes a housing defining a keyway that has a fixed position within the housing. The access control device further includes a root depth sensor assembly, an insertion depth sensor assembly, a control assembly in communication with the sensor assemblies, and an electronic lock device. The control assembly is configured to determine the bitting code of the mechanical key based upon information received from the sensor assemblies, to compare the bitting code of the mechanical key to a lock/unlock bitting code; and to transmit a lock/unlock command in response to the bitting code matching the lock/unlock bitting code. The electronic lock device is configured to transition between a locked state and an unlocked state in response to receiving the lock/unlock command and without requiring rotation of the mechanical key.
US11193301B2
A one-touch tent flysheet having an edge portion is fixed to the ground in a state in which the one-touch tent flysheet covers a tent to protect the tent from an external environment, includes a waterproof cloth installed to cover the tent, a tunnel-type pole which is fixed to the waterproof cloth to allow the waterproof cloth to stand in the form of a tunnel when the flysheet is installed and which is formed in a ring shape and bent so that a pair of first points facing each other press against the ground and a pair of second points facing each other, which are at a right angle from the first points, are located at the highest height level, and a fastening member configured to connect and fix portions of the tent and the flysheet to allow the flysheet to be attached to or detached from the tent.
US11193295B1
A shrinkage compensating device for seismic restraint in wood building construction combines a spring-operated take-up device (TUD) with a ratcheting split nut. The split nut, attached to or formed as part of a rotatable component of the TUD, acts as the securing nut for the TUD and allows the TUD with the split nut to be slipped over the top of a threaded rod and pulled down along the rod into place against a structural member. Several forms of attachment of the split nut to the spring-operated TUD are disclosed, as is a simplified rotatable split nut version.
US11193292B2
A nuclear power plant having a protective superstructure including a first end region configured to cover a nuclear reactor in a containment structure, a second end region opposite the first end region and configured to cover a cooling water pump house, and a central region between the first and second end regions and configured to cover a turbine hall. The superstructure has an oval-shaped plan profile, the oval having a greater degree of curvature at the first end region than at the second end region.
US11193286B2
A self propelled power trowel for finishing a concrete surface is equipped with reversible rotors to allow an operator to reverse the direction of rotation of rotor blades. The trowel includes a rigid frame adapted for operation over a concrete surface, a pair of rotor assemblies having rotor blades tiltably connected to the rigid frame for frictionally contacting the concrete surface and supporting the rigid frame thereabove, a prime mover mounted to the rigid frame and operatively coupled to drive the rotor blades of the rotor assemblies in opposite rotational directions. Synchronous or hydraulic motors are configured for causing, responsive to manual controls, reversal of the direction of rotation of the rotor blades.
US11193281B2
Disclosed herein is a fiber cement cladding system such as fiber cement shingles or shakes which can have the appearance of authentic wood. Each individual fiber cement shingle or shake comprises a textured surface having a depth of relief and a coating system disposed on the textured surface. The coating system may include a sealing agent, a basecoat, and a topcoat. In some embodiments, the basecoat is disposed on at least a portion of the sealing agent and the topcoat is disposed on at least a portion of the basecoat. In some embodiments, the basecoat comprises a DFT of 1 to 3 mils and the topcoat comprises a DFT of 0.05 to 2 mils. In some embodiments, the depth of relief of the textured surface of the fiber cement shingle is about 0.03″ to 0.085″.
US11193280B2
A roof gutter for the purpose of keeping small debris out of the gutter and allowing rainwater to pass into the gutter. The covering is comprised of a water permeable, weather resistant mesh having apertures of a pre-determined size for passing water, the mesh sized to substantially cover a rain gutter; corrugations formed in the mesh; a debris collection first trough disposed along a longitudinal axis of the mesh, formed by making at least two bends in the mesh, the first trough located between a longitudinal midline of the mesh and a front gutter end of the mesh.
US11193278B2
Provided are an anchor pin for placing shotcrete and fixing a textile grid and a method of constructing textile grid reinforced shotcrete using the same, wherein the anchor pin allows a textile grid reinforcement to be precisely disposed at a required position and, when shotcrete is placed, prevents a textile grid reinforcement from moving due to a driving pressure for precise construction so as to increase durability and safety of the concrete structure, allows primary and secondary shotcrete to be constructed while placing thicknesses thereof are visually checked so as to increase precision of construction, and allows the textile grid reinforcement to be disposed and fixed to accurately correspond to a shape of the concrete structure even when a lower portion of a slab, a wall, and a structure with a curved surface, such as a lining of a tunnel, are built.
US11193275B2
A wall panel storage system includes a looped element and a motor for driving the looped element. A plurality of spacers are attached to the looped element with at least one spacer of the plurality of spacers being configured to fit vertically or be inserted between a pair of panels to move a panel of the pair of panels into or out of a storage area along a storage track when the motor drives the looped element.
US11193269B2
A heat insulation sheet and a sheet material using the heat insulation sheet. The heat insulation sheet is provided with a fixing layer that is arranged between a base material and a carbon sheet. The fixing layer is made of a pressure-sensitive adhesive. The base material has flexibility. The carbon sheet is made by rolling expanded graphite and has a thickness from twenty-five micrometers to one hundred micrometers. In the sheet material, activated carbon is arranged opposite to the fixing layer side of the heat insulation sheet, and a surface material is arranged on a surface of the activated carbon. The fixing layer can be constituted in such a manner that a hot-melt adhesive is arranged in a reticulate manner.
US11193267B2
Tensegrity structures and methods of constructing tensegrity structures of three-dimensional tensegrity lattices formed from truncated octahedron elementary cells. Space-tiling translational symmetry is achieved by performing recursive reflection operations on the elementary cells. This topology exhibiting unprecedented static and dynamic mechanical properties.
US11193266B2
A flush toilet is provided with a toilet main unit and a functional unit. The toilet main unit has a toilet bowl and an upper surface portion on which a recessed portion is formed. The functional unit is provided on the rear side of the toilet bowl and offers a function different from a function for washing the toilet bowl. The functional unit is able to move between an entering position where at least a portion of the functional unit is located inside the recessed portion and a retreating position where the entire functional unit is located outside the recessed portion.
US11193261B2
A conventional bathroom sink has an overflow port and an overflow conduit. A conventional drain pipe for the conventional sink has overflow ports in fluid communication with the sink's overflow port. A vessel sink does not have an overflow port. A prior art drain pipe that does not have overflow ports has been used with vessel sinks. The present invention provides a new drain pipe with overflow ports for a conventional sink and means for covering and sealing the overflow ports in the new drain pipe so that the new drain pipe can also be used with a vessel sink that does not have an overflow port. Means for covering and sealing the overflow ports include an inner sleeve that fits inside the drain pipe, an outer sleeve that surrounds the drain pipe and grommets and hole plugs that that fit inside the overflow ports, where all of the means cover and seal the overflow ports so that the new drain pipe does not leak when used with a vessel sink that does not have an overflow port.
US11193255B2
A system for maximizing productivity of a work vehicle is disclosed. The system includes a first sensor system that generates a first signal output indicative of a height of a material arranged forward of the work vehicle. A second sensor system generates a second signal output indicative of a position and height of a material transport blade coupled to the work vehicle. An actuator system configured to adjust the position and height of the material transport blade. An electronic data processor is communicatively coupled to each of the first sensor system, the second sensor system, and the actuator system. The electronic data processor determines a material flow rate based on the first and second signal outputs, and generates a command signal received by the actuator system to dynamically adjust a plurality of operating parameters associated with the material transport blade to maximize the material flow rate.
US11193254B2
To provide a construction machine that can highly precisely control branch flows from a hydraulic pump to a plurality of hydraulic actuators without being affected by load conditions. A controller (100) has a meter-out valve control section (140) configured to calculate a target opening area of a second meter-out valve (65a) (65b) according to a pressure difference between a supply pressure and a second meter-in pressure, or calculate a target opening area of a first meter-out valve (55a) (55b) according to a pressure difference between the supply pressure and the first meter-in pressure.
US11193251B2
A foundation system (1) and method of installing the foundation system. The system including plurality of modular slabs (3, 3A, 3B) mountable onto a gravel layer (2); and at least one horizontal isolating slab (5A, 5B, 5C) and a vertical edge portion (4) positioned with respect to the modular slabs (3A, 3A, 3B) for creating a receptacle wherein concrete is poured thereon.
US11193249B2
An apparatus for de-icing a pathway, the apparatus comprising a frame including a set of wheels, a salt dispenser, a servo attached to the salt dispenser, one or more motors, the motors attached to at least one of the set of wheels, and a microcontroller communicatively coupled to the servo and the one or more motors, wherein the microcontroller instructs the servo to operate the salt dispenser and activates the one or more motors to drive the at least one of the set of wheels.
US11193242B2
Retention devices, and methods for retention devices, to retain a railway tie plate are disclosed. The retention devices may include a head section with one or more protrusions adapted to engage a railway rail. The retention devices may include an insert section adapted to fit in a spike hole of a railway tie plate and including one or more flexible members extending from the head section. Each flexible member may allow flex adjustment when the insert section is inserted in the spike hole of the railway tie plate. When the insert section is inserted in the spike hole of the railway tie plate, the head section may engage the railway rail and the insert section may engage the railway tie plate to mechanically interlock the railway tie plate with the railway rail to allow suspension of the railway tie plate from the railway rail.
US11193240B2
A paper suitable for use as a separator or thermal or fire insulation for use in or with electrochemical cells, and an electrochemical cell comprising the same, the paper having 90 to 99 weight percent aramid fibrous pulp comprising aramid polymer fibrils and 1 to 10 weight percent polyvinylpyrrolidone present as a coating on the surface of the fibers, the paper having a thickness of 10 to 40 micrometers and a tensile strength of at least 15 megapascals or greater.
US11193235B2
A laundry treatment apparatus is disclosed. The laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinet having an accommodation space formed therein to accommodate laundry, a door hingedly connected to the cabinet to open or close the accommodation space, a presser for applying pressure to laundry to remove wrinkles from laundry, and a presser-fixing structure for mounting the presser to the inner surface of the accommodation space or the door. The presser-fixing structure includes a support holder protruding from the inner surface of the accommodation space or the door and a presser-fixing recess formed concavely in the rear surface of the presser so as to allow the support holder to be inserted thereinto.
US11193234B2
A laundry treating apparatus includes a tub, a drum, a detergent supply unit, a connection pipe, first and second water supply pipes, a supply unit water supply pipe, a housing defining a chamber configured to receive water from the first water supply pipe. The housing defines a first path connected to the first water supply pipe, a second path connected to the second water supply pipe, and a third path connected to the supply unit water supply pipe. The apparatus further includes a first valve configured to open and close the first water supply pipe or the first path, a second valve configured to open and close the third path, a second tub arranged above or below the tub, a second drum, a second tub water supply pipe, and a second tub water supply pipe valve.
US11193227B2
A circuit that increases input voltage to higher output voltage connected to a variable frequency drive in an appliance. Several switching arrangements, timing, and safety mechanisms are in place to assist. When the circuit experiences high draw, high voltage output values of circuit decrease over time, but different aspects of the circuit can be constructed so that the amount of time required at a higher voltage does not exceed the amount of time in which the high voltage output is provided.
US11193226B2
A laundry treatment apparatus includes a tub that stores wash water; a drum rotatably disposed in the tub; a heater that heats wash water in the tub; a temperature sensor that senses a temperature of wash water; an output unit that displays at least one operation setting of the laundry treatment apparatus; and a controller configured to: determine an initial operation time based on the at least one operation setting; output the initial operation time through the output unit; determine an operation time based on (i) the temperature of wash water sensed by the temperature sensor during a supply of water to the tub and (ii) a level of wash water supplied to the tub; and output the operation time through the output unit.
US11193224B2
An embroidery frame transport device includes a guide portion, a lever, and a locking portion. The guide portion is configured to prescribe a first direction being a movement direction when the embroidery frame is removed and a second direction being a movement direction when the embroidery frame is mounted. The lever is configured to move between a first restriction position that restricts the movement in the first direction of the embroidery frame and a first release position that does not restrict the movement in the first direction of the embroidery frame. The locking portion is configured to move between a second restriction position that restricts the movement in the second direction of the embroidery frame and a second release position that does not restrict the movement in the second direction of the embroidery frame.
US11193221B2
The present invention concerns a knitted component, especially for an article of apparel or footwear, including: a first knitted layer, including a knitted first portion with a first linear loop density along a first direction, a knitted second portion with a second linear loop density along the first direction, wherein the second linear loop density is greater than the first linear loop density; a second knitted layer, including a knitted third portion with a third linear loop density along a second direction, a knitted fourth portion with a fourth linear loop density along the second direction; wherein the first knitted layer is connected to the second knitted layer.
US11193219B2
The present disclosure relates to tellurite crystals, growing methods of the same, and applications thereof; the crystals a chemical formula of MTe3O8, wherein M=Ti, Zr, Hf, which belongs to an Ia-3 space group of a cubic crystal system, wherein a transmittance waveband ranges from visible light to infrared light, with a transparency ≥70%. According to the present disclosure, a growing method of a tellurite crystal is provided, wherein the crystal may be grown using a flux method, a Czochralski method, or a Bridgman-Stockbarger method. The tellurite crystals may be used as an acousto-optic crystal for fabricating an optical modulation device. The present disclosure takes the lead internationally in growing the tellurite single crystals, the size and quality of which sufficiently meet the demands of practical applications of the tellurite single crystals.
US11193210B2
A coated metallic substrate is provided, including, at least; one layer of oxides, such layer being directly topped by an intermediate coating layer comprising Fe, Ni, Cr and Ti wherein the amount of Ti is above or equal to 5 wt. % and wherein the following equation is satisfied: 8 wt. %
US11193208B2
A wafer/support arrangement, including a wafer, a support system, which includes a support and an elastomer layer, and a connecting layer, wherein the connecting layer is a sol-gel layer. The invention further relates to a coated wafer for a wafer/support arrangement according to the invention, wherein a sol-gel layer is used as a connecting layer for a corresponding wafer/support assembly, and to a method for processing the back side of a wafer.
US11193207B2
Treatment chamber (C) for a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactor, comprising, within a body (B) defining an enclosure (E) under partial vacuum, a system (3) for injecting reactive species with a view to being deposited on a substrate (8) placed on a support element (5), and a thermal control system (2) for regulating the temperature of the injection system (3) or keeping it substantially constant, this thermal control system (2) having an interface zone (ZI) with the injection system (3). The treatment chamber (C) further comprises, in the interface zone (ZI), at least one thermal transfer zone (ZT) that is (i) insulated from the enclosure under partial vacuum (E) by an insulating barrier to the pressure and to the diffusion of contaminating species and (ii) filled with a thermal interface material (10). Application for carrying out CVD depositions, especially pulsed CVD depositions.
US11193202B2
A method of modifying a surface of a medical device for implantation or disposition inside a patient is described. The medical device comprises a structure having at least one surface. The method includes the steps of: placing the medical device into a plasma chamber substantially free from contaminants and substantially sealing the plasma chamber from the atmosphere; removing at least an outermost layer of any oxide layer from the at least one surface of the structure by a plasma oxide-removal process, whilst maintaining the plasma chamber under seal from the atmosphere; and subsequently forming a new oxide layer at the least one surface of the structure by introducing at least one gas into the plasma chamber, whilst maintaining the plasma chamber under seal from the atmosphere. A medical device including a bulk material and an oxide layer disposed over at least one surface of the medical device. The oxide layer is substantially pure and free from contaminants.
US11193198B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for forming devices on a substrate. For example, a method for forming devices on a substrate can include projecting one or more ion beams from one or more ion beam chambers to form one or more devices on a first surface of a substrate and projecting one or more ion beams from one or more ion beam chambers to form one or more devices on a second surface of a substrate. In these embodiments, the first surface and the second surface are on opposite sides of the substrate. Therefore, the ion beams can form the devices on both sides of the substrate.
US11193196B2
A furnace for annealing a sheet includes: a first section; a second vertical section, the second vertical section including openings supplied with an oxidizing medium, an opening facing each side of the sheet, and means for separately controlling a flow of the oxidizing medium on each side of the sheet; and a third section. The second vertical section is located in a distinct casing and separated from the first and third sections with sealing devices. The second vertical section includes extraction openings for extracting the oxidizing medium not consumed by the sheet, an extraction opening facing each side of the sheet. The openings supplied with an oxidizing medium are located transversally at one end of the second vertical section. The extraction openings are located transversally at an other end of the second vertical section.
US11193182B2
A method for heat-treating a metal strip, where the metal strip is pre-heated continuously in a pre-heating zone with the aid of hot gas and subsequently undergoes further heat treatment in a directly fired furnace in a reducing and/or oxidizing atmosphere. The metal strip is pre-heated in the pre-heating zone with hot inert gas and further heated with an electric heating system before entering the directly fired furnace. A furnace plant for implementing the process and a related heat recovery system are also disclosed.
US11193179B2
A method of manufacturing a seamless stainless steel pipe for Oil Country Tubular Goods by heating a billet having a specified chemical composition including forming the billet into a seamless steel pipe by applying hot working to the billet, cooling the seamless steel pipe to a room temperature at a cooling rate of air cooling or more, thereafter, performing quenching by heating the seamless steel pipe to a temperature of 850° C. or above, subsequently, cooling the seamless steel pipe to a temperature of 100° C. or below at a cooling rate of air cooling or more, and subsequently, applying tempering to the seamless steel pipe at a temperature of 700° C. or below for a specific holding time.
US11193176B2
The invention includes methods for determining the presence of a latent viral population by analyzing an RNA population from the virus with digital techniques, such as digital PCR or by sequencing cDNA produced from the RNA. The invention additional includes methods for determining the presence of latent viral populations by detecting and/or quantifying enzymes that are uniquely associated with the virus, e.g., reverse transcriptases.
US11193170B2
A method of identifying a gene or genomic mutation that is linked to causality of a neuropsychiatric disorder is provided. The method comprises identifying exons which exhibit an expression level that is at least within the 75th percentile of exon expression levels within a nucleic acid-containing sample from a mammal having a neuropsychiatric disorder; comparing the sequence of each identified exon to the sequence of a corresponding exon from a healthy control to identify rare or de novo sequence mutations within the identified exon; calculating the burden of rare or de novo mutations within the exon; and determining the correlation between expression level of the identified exon and burden of de novo or rare mutations in the exon, wherein an inverse correlation indicates that the exon gene is linked to causality of the neuropsychiatric disorder.
US11193168B2
Provided herein is technology relating to the amplification-based detection of bisulfite-treated DNAs and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods and compositions for multiplex amplification of low-level sample DNA prior to further characterization of the sample DNA. The technology further provides methods for isolating DNA from blood or blood product samples, e.g., plasma samples.
US11193154B2
The present invention is directed to a cell-free system for producing a glycosylated protein. This system comprises an isolated oligosaccharyltransferase capable of transferring a glycan from a lipid carrier molecule to a glycoprotein target, one or more isolated glycans, where each glycan is linked to a lipid carrier molecule, and a glycoprotein target comprising one or more glycan acceptor amino acid residues or a nucleic acid molecule encoding said glycoprotein target. The present invention further relates to kits and methods for producing a glycosylated protein in this cell-free system.
US11193149B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for rapid production of chemicals in genetically engineered microorganisms in a large scale. Also provided herein is a high-throughput metabolic engineering platform enabling the rapid optimization of microbial production strains. The platform, which bridges a gap between current in vivo and in vitro bio-production approaches, relies on dynamic minimization of the active metabolic network.
US11193148B2
The present disclosure provides a method for extracting alpha-ketoglutarate and pyruvate simultaneously from microbial fermentation broth or enzyme transformation solution, which is related to the technical field of biological separation and extraction. The method comprises the following steps: centrifuging the microbial fermentation broth or enzymatic conversion solution containing α-KG and PA to remove the cells and other visible solids; removing the macromolecular impurities by ultrafiltration; evaporating and concentrating under reduced pressure conditions; extracting with the water-insoluble extraction after acidification; separating crude crystals of α-KG and crude liquid of PA by evaporation crystallization method (if concentration of PA is great higher than that of α-KG, crystallization separation should be conducted after distilling partial pure pyruvate); washing the crude crystal of α-KG with water-insoluble organic solvent as ethyl acetate or butyl acetate, drying and crushing to obtain qualified α-KG; distilling to gain qualified PA product applying high vacuum distillation (or molecular distillation).
US11193135B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a genetically modified plant or woody plant with improved growth properties (in terms of biomass and wood quality) as compared to a corresponding non-genetically modified wild type plant or woody plant, said method comprising altering the level of expression of a polypeptide in a plant cell or woody plant cell; a plant or woody plant; or a part thereof.
US11193131B2
Provided herein are materials and in planta methods for using haploid inducer lines containing a targeted endonuclease to generate transgenic or non-transgenic plants with targeted mutations and/or genomic modifications.
US11193125B2
Provided is a drug that allows highly-efficient skipping of exon. The present invention provides an antisense oligomer wherein two or more unit oligomers targeting sequences that are neither consecutive nor overlap with each other in the same exon are connected.
US11193121B2
The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing.
US11193118B2
A molecular filter that may include a substrate. The substrate may define a first channel, a second channel, at least one slit fluidically coupling the first channel to the second channel, at least one inlet port fluidically coupled to the first channel, at least one recovery port fluidically coupled to the first channel, at least one purge port fluidically coupled to the first channel, and at least one filtrate port fluidically coupled to the second channel. A respective cross-sectional area of each respective slit of the at least one slit in a plane perpendicular to a long axis of the respective slit is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the first channel in a plane perpendicular to a long axis of the first channel.
US11193111B2
Virus particle multimers and methods of making and using such virus particle multimer are described. Virus particle multimers are constructed by preparing a plurality of asymmetrically functionalized virus particles bearing one or more functional groups and contacting the asymmetrically functionalized virus particles with a first linker molecule that reacts with the functional groups to form a virus particle multimer that includes a plurality of asymmetrically functionalized virus particles connected by the linker molecule. The asymmetrically functionalized virus particles are typically prepared by attaching the virus particles to a support surface to allow asymmetrical functionalization to be introduced.
US11193102B2
A cell culture apparatus includes an introduction-side flow path arranged to allow a culture solution introduced to flow therethrough and be introduced therethrough into each of a plurality of concave wells of a flexible strip circumferentially wound, and a first introduction-side seal provided on an outer circumferential side of the introduction-side flow path, the first introduction-side seal being configured to block flow of the culture solution from the introduction-side flow path to an outer circumferential side of the flexible strip.
US11193101B2
Methods and apparatus for detecting, quantifying, enriching, and/or separating bacterial species in fluid sample are provided. The fluid sample is provided as input to a microfluidic passage of a microfluidic device, wherein the microfluidic device comprises at least one electrode disposed adjacent to the microfluidic passage. The at least one electrode is activated to capture bacteria in the sample using dielectrophoresis, wherein the capture efficiency of bacteria is at least 99%.
US11193100B2
A method for carbon resource utilization is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the method includes (a) supplying carbon dioxide to a medium to form bicarbonate ions (HCO3−) (S100), (b) inoculating one or more microalgal species into the medium, followed by photo-culture (S200), and (c) supplying calcium ions (Ca2+) to the medium, where the microalgal species are photo-cultured, to produce calcite (CaCO3)-containing biomass (S300).
US11193090B2
Systems and methods of forming and analyzing a dissolvable article are provided herein. In an embodiment, a method of forming a dissolvable article with excellent dissolution performance includes heating a dissolvable composition that includes a water-soluble block copolymer at heating conditions that are sufficient to render the copolymer flowable and to form a hot melt composition. The water-soluble block copolymer is solid at ambient conditions. The method further includes solidifying the dissolvable composition to form the dissolvable article. A surface of the dissolvable article is analyzed for surface texture using a three-dimensional imaging device to produce a data set that is representative of the surface texture. If the data set fails to at least equal a predetermined threshold value, the method further includes reformulating the dissolvable composition to form a reformulated dissolvable composition.
US11193089B2
Detergents and cleaning agents containing an anionic surfactant of general formula (I), in which n is a number from 5 to 21 and X+ is a charge-balancing cation. Also disclosed are an agent or a use, characterized in that, in the compound of general formula (I), X+ is selected from the group including the proton, alkali metal cations and the group N+R1R2R3, where R1, R2 and R3 are, independently of one another, hydrogen, an alkyl group with 1 to 6 C atoms or a hydroxyalkyl group with 2 to 6 C atoms.
US11193086B2
Disclosed herein is a method of using surface tension to control the manufacture of candles until a surface tension ranging from 20 to 30 dynes/cm is achieved.
US11193083B2
An industrial base oil formulation comprising a base oil, preferably a hydrocarbon base oil, having a kinematic viscosity of more than 100 centiStokes, preferably 150 centiStokes or more, at 40 degrees Celsius and an AC-OSP where the AC-OSP has the structure of Formula I: R1[O(R2O)n(R3O)mR4]p (I) where R1 is an alkyl having from one to thirty carbons, R2 and R3 are independently selected from alkyl groups having three or four carbons and can be in block form or randomly combined, R4 is an alkyl having from one to 18 carbon atoms, n and m are independently numbers ranging from zero to 20 provided that n+m is greater than zero and p is a number within a range of one to three; wherein the industrial base oil formulation has a kinematic viscosity of greater than 100 centiStokes, preferably 150 centiStokes or more, at 40 degrees Celsius is useful in a lubricant for mechanical devices.
US11193071B2
Integrated gas oil separation plant systems and methods are disclosed. Systems and methods include treating a crude oil inlet feed stream with a high pressure production trap (HPPT), a low pressure production trap (LPPT), a low pressure degassing tank (LPDT), a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a LPPT recycle water stream, a fresh wash water supply stream, and a LPDT recycle water stream, where the LPDT recycle water stream is operable to supply recycle water from the LPDT to an output stream from the HPPT to form the LPPT inlet feed stream.
US11193065B2
A liquid crystal composition is provided containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound, the composition having high preservation stability when dissolved in a solvent and also having the ability to restrain the development of orientation defects of the liquid crystal compound. A method of producing such a liquid crystal composition is also provided with ease. The liquid crystal composition includes a first polymerizable liquid crystal compound having five or more ring structures on its principal chain and represented by the following formula (A) and a second polymerizable liquid crystal compound having five or more ring structures and represented by the following formula (B).
US11193060B2
Provided is a method for synthesizing a perovskite quantum dot film, including: preparing a cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) solution, wherein the CNC solution includes a plurality of CNCs with sulfate groups; preparing a precursor solution; mixing the CNC solution and the precursor solution to form a mixed solution; and filtering and drying the mixed solution to form a perovskite quantum dot film.
US11193057B2
Water-soluble, fluorescent particles and compositions, kits, and methods of making and using such particles are disclosed. Processes for preparing fluorescent particles and for controlling the size, polydispersity and optical properties of such particles also are provided.
US11193048B2
The adhesive composition comprising emulsion polymers and microspheres and articles made therefrom are provided. The adhesive is particularly suitable for packages for consumer products that provide sufficient strength and thermal insulation while reducing the overall basis weight of the substrates.
US11193045B2
A multi-material assembly is provided, as well as methods of making a multi-material assembly. The multi-material assembly includes a first coated structural component and a second structural component. The first coated structural component includes a first uncoated portion, and an adhesive is positioned between the second structural component and the first uncoated portion that secures the first coated structural component to the second structural component.
US11193041B1
A moisture barrier coating includes the reaction product of (A) at least one polyol and (B) at least one polyisocyanate. The moisture barrier coating further includes at least one amorphous thermoplastic material that forms a homogeneous mixture with the polyol, and is nonreactive with the polyol and with the polyisocyanate. A controlled release fertilizer, a method for the production of a controlled release fertilizer, and a moisture barrier coating composition are also disclosed.
US11193035B2
The present invention relates to a novel plastisol composition that cures at a temperature much lower than conventional plastisols. Also disclosed is a method of applying the composition.
US11193034B2
Provided is a novel photoinitiator in the form of a hybrid nanoparticle constructed of a semiconductor and metallic regions, and uses thereof.
US11193023B2
The present invention relates to novel methine dyes, methods for the preparation thereof and use thereof for dyeing plastics, especially polyamides, so as to obtain yellow to orange colourings with improved light fastness and improved thermal stability. Such dyes include a dye of the formula (I) in which R1 is hydrogen, halogen, COOH or COOR11, R2 is hydrogen, halogen, COOH, COOR12 or CN, R3 is alkyl or phenyl, R4 and R5 are each independently alkyl, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R19 are each independently hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy or COOR13, and R11, R12 and R13 are each independently alkyl.
US11193020B2
A polyarylene ether sulfone comprising endgroups of formula (I), a process for its manufacture, a molding composition comprising the polyarylene ether sulfone, use of the molding composition and fiber, film or shaped article produced using the molding composition.
US11193016B2
Curable compositions, cured compositions formed from the curable compositions, and articles containing the cured compositions are provided. The curable compositions include (a) a curable component that includes (1) an epoxy resin, (2) a polyamide composition, (3) a multifunctional amine compound, and (4) a multifunctional (meth)acrylate compound and (b) an optional inorganic filler. The curable composition can result in the formation of cured compositions with properties such as good tensile strength, good elongation at break, good overlap shear strength, good adhesion to substrates such as metal substrates, or a combination thereof.
US11193015B2
A thermosetting resin composition having improved flowability and stiffness, and a prepreg using the same. Specifically, three kinds of fillers having different average particle diameters are combined with a binder resin system including an epoxy resin, a bismaleimide resin, a diaminodiphenylsulfone resin, and a benzoxazine resin.
US11193014B2
Thermoplastic compositions include: (a) from about 30 wt % to about 95 wt % poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA); and (b) from about 5 wt % to about 70 wt % of a poly(carbonate-siloxane) copolymer having a siloxane content of from about 25 wt % to about 45 wt %. Methods for making a molded article, include: (a) combining from about 30 wt % to about 95 wt % PMMA and from about 5 wt % to about 70 wt % of a poly(carbonate-siloxane) copolymer having a siloxane content of from about 25 wt % to about 45 wt % to form a blend; (b) melt processing and pelletizing the blend; and (c) injection molding the article from the melt processed and pelletized blend.
US11193009B2
Provided is a method for increasing the melt strength and/or low shear viscosity of a polyethylene resin. The method includes: a) providing a polyethylene composition including the reaction product of ethylene and optionally, one or more alpha-olefin comonomers, wherein the polyethylene composition is characterized by the following properties: a density ranging from 0.900 g/cm3 to 0.970 g/cm3, a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) ranging from 2.6 to 3.5, and from 0.10 to 0.27 vinyl groups per 1,000 total carbon atoms; b) providing a masterbatch composition including a free radical generator and a polyethylene resin, wherein the free radical generator has a half-life at 220° C. of less than 200 seconds, and a decomposition energy higher than −250 kJ/mol, and wherein the polyethylene resin has a density ranging from 0.900 g/cm3 to 0.970 g/cm3, melt index ranging from 0.01 g/10 min to 100 g/10 min; and c) reacting the polyethylene composition with the masterbatch composition to form a modified polyethylene composition.
US11192996B2
A recycled PET foam material and a manufacturing method thereof are characterized in that a recycled material can be used. The manufacturing method includes the following steps: uniformly mixing PET resin, chain extender, antioxidant, flame retardant and heat stabilizer, and then mixing with a twin-screw extruder to obtain a foam PET resin. The PET foaming material obtained is a material having the advantages of light weight, large rigidity, high specific strength, good electrical insulation, good sound insulation and the like, low raw material cost, simple manufacturing process and environmental protection.
US11192987B2
The present invention relates to a new process for improving runnability and dimensional stability when manufacturing a film comprising high amounts of microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) without negatively impacting the film properties. According to the present invention a high amount of nanoparticles is used as an additive, optionally together with a retention polymer.
US11192985B2
A curable matrix resin composition containing a thermoset resin component and metastable thermoplastic particles, wherein the metastable thermoplastic particles are particles of semi-crystalline thermoplastic material with an amorphous polymer fraction that will undergo crystallization upon heating to a crystallization temperature Tc. A fiber-reinforced polymeric composite material containing metastable thermoplastic particles is also disclosed.
US11192983B2
A method for producing a polymer latex includes: a preparation step of reducing the weight average molecular weight of a conjugated diene polymer (A) by 20 to 70 mass %, thereby obtaining an organic solvent solution containing a conjugated diene polymer (B) having a weight average molecular weight lower than that of the conjugated diene polymer (A); and an emulsification step of emulsifying the organic solvent solution in water in the presence of a surfactant, thereby obtaining a polymer latex.
US11192982B2
The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for directed to synthetic block copolymer proteins, expression constructs for their secretion, recombinant microorganisms for their production, and synthetic fibers (including advantageously, microfibers) comprising these proteins that recapitulate many properties of natural silk. The recombinant microorganisms can be used for the commercial production of silk-like fibers.
US11192981B2
The present disclosure relates to a preparation method of a polyarylene sulfide, and this method may produce a polyarylene sulfide having properties equal to or higher than those of the conventional method at a high yield by adding an acidic compound in addition to existing materials for dehydration.
US11192970B2
A process including contacting one or more monomers, at least one catalyst system, and a condensing agent including propane and isobutane under polymerizable conditions to produce a polyolefin polymer is provided.
US11192968B2
This invention relates to the use of ethylene/propylene random copolymers for the production of films having low-haze. In particular, the present invention involves the use of ethylene/propylene random copolymer comprising 90-96.5 wt % propylene and 3.5-10 wt % ethylene demonstrated to have low haze. This invention also relates to an ethylene/propylene random copolymer composition comprising about 3.5-10 wt % ethylene content and about 90-96.5 wt % propylene content, for production of a low-haze film.
US11192967B1
A method for making thermosetting polyimides from resveratrol including converting resveratrol to trisaniline, reacting trisaniline with one or more dianhydride and thermosetting endcap to form amic acid, thermally imidizing amic acid to form polyimide oligomer, and cross-linking polyimide oligomer with heat and pressure to generate polyimide thermoset.
US11192957B2
The present invention generally relates to antibodies that bind to HLA-A2/WT1, including bispecific antigen binding molecules e.g. for activating T cells. In addition, the present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding such antibodies, and vectors and host cells comprising such polynucleotides. The invention further relates to methods for producing the antibodies, and to methods of using them in the treatment of disease.
US11192955B2
The present invention relates to therapeutic ADCs comprising SN-38 attached to an anti-Trop-2 antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment, more particularly sacituzumab govitecan. The ADC is administered to a subject with a Trop-2 positive cancer that is resistant to or relapsed from prior treatment with a checkpoint inhibitor. The therapy is effective to treat cancers that are resistant to checkpoint inhibitors.
US11192953B2
The invention provides antibodies that specifically bind to OX40 (CD134), referred to as OX40 antibodies, anti-OX40 or anti-OX40 antibodies. Invention antibodies that specifically bind to OX40 include mammalian (human, primate, etc.), humanized and chimeric anti-OX40 antibodies. Invention antibodies and antibody subsequences (fragments) that specifically bind to OX40 include purified and isolated antibodies, as well as pharmaceutical formulations thereof, are useful in various methods including treatment, screening and detection methods.
US11192949B2
A method for inducing an immune response against HIV in a subject includes the step of preparing an HIV-1 gp120 envelope protein coding sequence particle having an N425K mutation, introducing the HIV-1 gp120 protein coding sequence particle having an N425K mutation into an expression construct using yeast homologous recombination, transfecting a cell with the expression construct, wherein the HIV-1 particle is secreted by the cell, and administering the secreted HIV-1 particle and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier to the subject, wherein the secreted HIV-1 particle stimulates an immune response in the subject.
US11192947B2
A genetically modified non-human animal is provided, wherein the non-human animal expresses an antibody repertoire capable of pH dependent binding to antigens upon immunization. A genetically modified non-human animal is provided that expresses a single light chain variable domain derived from a single rearranged light chain variable region gene in the germline of the non-human animal, wherein the single rearranged light chain variable region gene comprises a substitution of at least one non-histidine encoding codon with a histidine encoding codon. Methods of making non-human animals that express antibodies comprising a histidine-containing universal light chain are provided.
US11192944B2
The present disclosure provides methods of inducing a complement activity on a surface of a cell comprising contacting the cell with an effective amount of an anti-Factor B antibody, wherein the anti-Factor B antibody inhibits dissociation of a C3bBb complex into a Factor Bb and a C3b.
US11192942B2
The present invention relates to an isolated chimeric molecule comprising a degradation domain including a eukaryotic U-box motif and a targeting domain capable of immunospecifically directing the degradation domain to a substrate where the targeting domain is heterologous to the degradation domain. A linker couples the degradation domain to the targeting domain. Also disclosed are compositions as well as methods of treating a disease, substrate silencing, screening agents for therapeutic efficacy against a disease, and methods of screening for disease biomarkers.
US11192935B2
The present invention relates to PD-1-CD28 fusion proteins, nucleic acid molecules, vectors, transduced cells carrying nucleic acid molecules or vectors of the present invention or expressing the fusion proteins of the present invention, methods and kits comprising the nucleic acid molecules, vectors and/or the fusion proteins of the present invention. The invention also provides the use of said transduced cells in a method for the treatment of particular diseases as well as a pharmaceutical composition/medicament comprising said transduced cells expressing the fusion proteins of the present invention for use in a method of treating of diseases, in particular in the medical intervention of diseases characterized by PD-L1 and/or PD-L2 expression.
US11192931B2
The present invention relates to Relaxin fusion polypeptides, in particular to Relaxin 2 fusion polypeptides and uses thereof. Thus, the invention provides Relaxin fusion polypeptides, nucleic acid molecules, vectors, host cells, pharmaceutical compositions and kits comprising the same and uses of the same including methods of treatment. The polypeptides and compositions of the invention may be useful, in particular, in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, for example for the treatment of heart failure.
US11192927B2
The present invention relates to a biologic that inhibits angiogenesis. In particular, the present invention relates to fusion proteins that inhibit the integrin activated pathway and one other angiogenic factor-activated pathway, the compositions of these fusion proteins, as well as methods for producing and using the same.
US11192918B2
The invention relates to methods for preparing a compound comprising a peptide attached to a molecular scaffold whereby multiple peptide loops are formed, to compounds that can be obtained with such methods and uses thereof.
US11192905B2
Provided is a method for producing a cyclic polysilane compound simply and easily in a higher yield. The method for producing a cyclic polysilane compound according to an embodiment of the present invention comprising a reaction step of adding a silane monomer compound represented by Formula (I) below into a liquid mixture containing metallic sodium and a lithium salt and allowing them to react: where, R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group, an alkoxy group, or a halogen atom, X1 and X2 each independently represent a halogen atom or an alkoxy group, and n1 is an integer that is greater than or equal to 1.
US11192903B2
The invention provides a method of preparing a 89Zr-oxine complex of the formula The invention also provides a method of labeling a cell with the 89Zr-oxine complex and a method for detecting a biological cell in a subject comprising administering the 89Zr-oxine complex to the subject.
US11192897B2
Novel crystalline forms of 3-(imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-3-ylethynyl)-4-methyl-N-{4-[(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)methyl]-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl}benzamide free base and 3-(imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-3-ylethynyl)-4-methyl-N-{4-[(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)methyl]-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl}benzamide mono hydrochloride, pharmaceutical compositions thereof and methods of their preparation and use are disclosed herein.
US11192896B2
Novel crystalline forms of 3-(imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-3-ylethynyl)-4-methyl-N-{4-[(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)methyl]-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl}benzamide free base and 3-(imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-3-ylethynyl)-4-methyl-N-{4-[(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)methyl]-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl}benzamide mono hydrochloride, pharmaceutical compositions thereof and methods of their preparation and use are disclosed herein.
US11192892B2
The invention provides substituted pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidinyl carboxamide and related organic compounds, compositions containing such compounds, medical kits, and methods for using such compounds and compositions to treat medical disorders, e.g., Gaucher disease, Parkinson's disease, Lewy body disease, dementia, or multiple system atrophy, in a patient. Exemplary substituted pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidinyl carboxamide compounds described herein include 2-heterocyclyl-4-alkyl-pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine-3-carboxamide compounds and variants thereof. The invention provides, in part, a compound of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the variables are as defined herein.
US11192884B2
The present specification relates to a heterocyclic compound of Chemical Formula 1, and an organic light emitting device comprising the same. The heterocyclic compound as a material of an organic material layer of the organic light emitting device provides enhanced efficiency, low driving voltage and increased lifetime.
US11192876B2
A medicinal agent for the prevention and/or treatment of diseases caused by EP4 receptor activation is disclosed. A compound having antagonistic activity against the EP4 receptor is contained as an active ingredient in the medicinal agent. The compound represented by the following general formula (I) as defined in the specification, a salt, an N-oxide, or a solvate thereof, or a prodrug of these is useful as a medicinal component having antagonistic activity against the EP4 receptor for the prevention and/or treatment of diseases caused by EP4 receptor activation.
US11192871B2
Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention comprise functionalized lactone derivatives having a disease-modifying action in the treatment of diseases associated with dysregulation of 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 7 activity.
US11192867B2
Compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as pesticides, especially as fungicides.
US11192863B2
The invention relates to compounds having antiviral and methods utilizing the compounds to treat viral infections.
US11192858B2
Provided are a diamine-based compound having a certain formula and an organic light-emitting device including the same.
US11192857B2
The present invention relates to novel 2-ethylidene-1,5-dimethyl-3,3-diphenylpyrrolidine analogs, and methods for their synthesis and use. Such analogs are designed to provide a convenient linkage chemistry for coupling under mild conditions to a suitable group on a target protein, polypeptide, solid phase or detectable label.
US11192853B2
Disclosed is a method for separating, with a multi-stage distillation column, a mixture containing an active hydrogen-containing compound (A) and a compound (B) that reversibly reacts with the active hydrogen containing compound (A), the method comprising distillation-separating the active hydrogen-containing compound (A) and the compound (B) with the multi-stage distillation column in the presence of an intermediate-boiling-point inactive compound (C) that has a normal boiling point between a normal boiling point of the active hydrogen-containing compound (A) and a normal boiling point of the compound (B) and is chemically inactive for both of the (A) and the compound (B).
US11192845B2
Provided is a hydrogenation method of a phthalate compound. According to the present invention, in the hydrogenation reaction, generation of by-products is suppressed, and thus catalytic activity is improved and life-time is extended, thereby increasing efficiency of a commercial process and economic efficiency. Further, since the hydrogenation product prepared by the present invention has high purity and a low acid value, its quality as a plasticizer is excellent, thereby being applied to a variety of products.
US11192841B2
The present invention provides improved processes for preparing halogenated alkanes. The processes comprise reacting an alkene, a halogenated alkene, or combinations thereof and a halogenated methane with at least one chlorine atom, while using an absorption device.
US11192837B2
A process for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene comprises i) in a first adiabatic reactor comprising a fixed bed composed of an inlet and an outlet, bringing hydrofluoric acid into contact, in the gas phase with at least one chlorinated compound in order to produce a stream A comprising 2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene, ii) in a second adiabatic reactor comprising a fixed bed composed of an inlet and an outlet, bringing the stream A into contact, in the gas phase in the presence of a catalyst, with hydrofluoric acid, to produce a stream B comprising 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene. The temperature at the inlet of the fixed bed of one of said first or second reactors is between 300° C. and 400° C. The longitudinal temperature difference between the inlet and the outlet of the fixed bed of the reactor is less than 20° C.
US11192833B2
This present disclosure relates to processes and apparatuses for toluene and benzene methylation in an aromatics complex for producing paraxylene. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to processes and apparatuses for toluene and benzene methylation within an aromatics complex for producing paraxylene wherein an embodiment uses a reactor having a refractory comprising a low iron content refractory.
US11192830B2
A seed coated with a seed grind, and optionally a source of sugar, a source of bicarbonate, and/or a source of fertilizer nutrient to supply plant roots with additional uptake-available carbon and energy to promote rapid growth. A method of coating seeds with the coating and a method of growing plants from the coated seed.
US11192823B2
A laser-textured glass cover member suitable for use in an electronic device is disclosed. The laser-textured surface of the glass cover member may provide a smooth feel to an external surface of the electronic device without introducing a perceptible visual texture. Methods for making the laser-textured glass cover members are also disclosed.
US11192819B2
Mineral wool fibers having a mineral wool fiber composition are manufactured by introducing batch materials into a melter, melting the mineral batch materials in the melter to provide a melt and fiberizing the melt to form the mineral wool fibers. The batch materials comprise i) fibers having a first batch material composition which is different from the mineral wool fiber composition and consisting of scrap fibers which have broken at a bushing producing continuous fibers; and ii) one of more additional mineral batch materials.
US11192813B2
Systems and methods of filtering particulate matter from a fluid are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a system for filtering particulate matter having suspended particles, organic contaminants, and microorganisms from a fluid comprises a main filter assembly having an activated carbon block disposed therein. The carbon block has distributed pores with a diameter of less than one micron. Further, the carbon block is operable to filter all of the particulate matter having a diameter or a non-spherical width of at least 0.45 microns from the fluid, and adsorb the particulate matter having a diameter or a non-spherical width of at least 0.003 microns from the fluid.
US11192811B2
The present invention relates to an anaerobic formation of granules for waste water treatment. More particularly, the present invention relates to the use and development of microbial consortia for stimulation of anaerobic digestion of organic matter and to a method for enhancing the granulation rate of suspended anaerobic sludge using carbohydrate rich industrial effluent.
US11192805B2
Leachate remediation is performed by synergistic chemical oxidation and photocatalytic-oxidation enhancer system (SCOPES) of municipal landfill leachate to a level that is safe for disposal within regulatory guidelines. The physico-chemical (chemical, spectroscopic, elemental, microstructural and thermal) characteristics of the pre- and post-treated landfill leachate have been investigated to examine the utility of advanced oxidation (AO) processes such as SCOPES to decontaminate the municipal landfill leachate and/or toxic organic wastewater. The experimental results demonstrated successful lowering of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and UV-Vis absorbance for constituent contaminants in the leachate and/or wastewater solutions.
US11192803B2
A system and method for backwashing a sand filter in a wastewater treatment system. In one aspect, the invention can be a system for backwashing a sand filter comprising: a sand filter configured to remove solids from an untreated wastewater; a container storing chlorine fluidly coupled to the sand filter by a chlorine supply manifold; a flow control mechanism positioned on the chlorine supply manifold between the container and the sand filter, the flow control mechanism alterable between a first position whereby chlorine cannot flow from the container to the sand filter and a second position whereby chlorine flows from the container to the sand filter, the flow control mechanism being biased into the first position; and a processor operably coupled to the flow control mechanism and configured to automatically actuate the flow control mechanism into the second position upon detecting that the sand filter is being backwashed.
US11192796B2
A co-assembly method for synthesizing inverse photonic structures is described. The method includes combining an onium compound with a sol-gel precursor to form metal oxide (MO) nanocrystals, where each MO nanocrystal has crystalline and amorphous content. The MO nanocrystals are combined with templating particles to form a suspension. A solvent is evaporated from the suspension to form an intermediate or compound product, which then undergoes calcination to produce an inverse structure.
US11192795B2
High surface area 3D mesoporous carbon nanocomposites can be derived from Zn dust and PET bottle mixed waste with a high surface area. Simultaneous transformation of Zn metal into ZnO nanoparticles and PET bottle waste to porous carbon materials can be achieved by thermal treatment at preferably 600 to 800° C., and reaction times of from 15 to 60 minutes, after optionally de-aerating the reaction mixtures with N2 gas. The waste-based carbon materials can have surface areas of 650 to 725 m2/g, e.g., 684.5 m2/g and pore size distributions of 12 to 18 nm. The carbon materials may have 3D porous dense layers with a gradient pore structure, which may have enhanced photocatalytic performance for degrading, e.g., organic dyes, such as methylene blue and malachite green. Sustainable methods make ZnO-mesoporous carbon materials from waste for applications including photocatalysis, upcycling mixed waste materials.
US11192794B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a pulverulent, porous crystalline metal silicate, comprising the following steps: a) hydrothermal synthesis in an aqueous mixture comprising (A) at least one silicon source, (B) at least one metal source and (C) at least one mineralizer to obtain an aqueous suspension comprising a porous crystalline metal silicate as reaction product; and b) calcination of the reaction product, characterized in that the calcination is conducted by means of flame spray pyrolysis at an adiabatic combustion temperature within a range of 450-2200° C., wherein the suspension having a solids content of 70% by weight which is obtained in step a) is sprayed into a flame generated by combustion of a fuel in the presence of oxygen to form a pulverulent, porous crystalline metal silicate.
US11192793B2
A method for modifying the surface of a molecular sieve, comprising reacting a molecular sieve with an aminosilane, wherein the reaction is carried out in an aqueous solvent. A modified molecular sieve obtained by the method is also described.
US11192791B2
The present disclosure relates to a partial oxidation catalyst that causes a light hydrocarbon partial oxidation reaction to proceed readily with high activity and high selectivity and a high-yield carbon monoxide production method using the same. The present disclosure further relates to a light hydrocarbon partial oxidation catalyst containing a zeolite supporting cobalt and rhodium.
US11192786B2
A composition including hydrogen peroxide is provided, which can be used for semiconductor device manufacturing and which exhibits an excellent storage stability and has a reduced effect of defects on a semiconductor substrate. Further, a method is provided for producing the composition including hydrogen peroxide, and a composition reservoir for storing the composition. The composition includes hydrogen peroxide, an acid, and an Fe component, in which the content of the Fe component is 10−5 to 102 in terms of mass ratio with respect to the content of the acid.
US11192777B2
Embodiments relate to sensor and sensing devices, systems and methods. In an embodiment, a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device comprises at least one sensor element; a framing element disposed around the at least one sensor element; at least one port defined by the framing element, the at least one port configured to expose at least a portion of the at least one sensor element to an ambient environment; and a thin layer disposed in the at least one port.
US11192776B2
A device having both an electronic assembly having an electronic component assembled on a first substrate, and also a body defining a cavity having a first end in fluid flow communication with a fluid, the electronic component extending inside the cavity and the first substrate including a portion in contact with a wall of the cavity. The coefficient of thermal expansion of the material of the first substrate is less than that of the electronic component, and the electronic component is assembled on the first substrate by a brazing type assembly method involving the application of heat. A method of making an electronic assembly. An assembly obtained by the method.
US11192774B2
A device for evacuating a container that contains a pasty liquid to avoid air inclusions or bubbles in the liquid while the container is being filled and/or to eliminate air between the liquid surface and a follower plate until the plate contacts the liquid surface during insertion of the plate into the container before removal of the liquid. The device comprises a cover assembly to close an opening of a container in a vacuum-tight manner and which has a connection device for connecting an evacuation pump. A collapse avoidance apparatus is provided to surround at least one region of the outer faces of the container walls with a seal to connect to the wall outer face in a vacuum-tight manner and form a vacuum-tight collapse avoidance chamber. A connection device is provided for connecting an evacuation pump to evacuate the chamber and apply a vacuum on the wall outer face.
US11192773B1
Described herein are systems and methods for managing a fuel dispensing account associated with fuel dispensing transactions. A fuel dispensing apparatus includes a receiver configured for wireless communication with a user device. The fuel dispensing apparatus receives a request to dispense fuel from the user device via the receiver and associates the fuel request with a primary user account stored in a user database. A notification is sent to one or more users of the primary account requesting instructions regarding the fuel request. Fuel is dispensed from the fuel dispensing apparatus if instructions are received from a user of the primary account authorizing the request.
US11192770B1
Automated dispensing of beverages is provided by unattended software control. Grants are purchased or given from the administrative Portal (we call it Pass Manager, see screen shots in the ppt presentation). The redemption is initiated from the web page opened on a phone or tablet. Redemption can also be initiated by applying QR, bar code, RFID or CC cards to a Reader. dispensing tap may be accessed at the dispensing station interface or via a networked application interface. Authenticating the granting of automated access via a receipt includes acceptance of legal terms and conditions and assess limited by an access code. User may prepay for servings, with the tap remaining locked until the user specific access code is acknowledged. After dispensing, the tap is locked and the purchase or grant total updated.
US11192766B2
A quick-change coupling is described for a container treatment machine, in particular a capping machine, with an outer member and an inner member engaging therewith in a positive-fit manner, between which members torques in a working direction of rotation and axial forces can be transmitted. Due to the fact that the outer member and the inner member are connectable to each other by pushing one into the other and twisting, a simple connection/separation of the quick-change coupling is possible without tools, as well as reliable and play-free transmission of unidirectional torques and contact pressure forces.
US11192749B2
An elevator operation panel has a plurality of buttons for selecting target floors and a plurality of touch-sensitive areas, each area being associated with one of the buttons. The panel includes an output device, such as a display or a loudspeaker, for outputting information, a control unit connected to the buttons, to the areas and to the output device, and a data storage device storing at least one data folder for each target floor. Each folder contains information relating to the associated target floor. Upon triggering one of the touch-sensitive areas, the control unit reads the information in one of the folders relating to the target floor selectable by the button to which the area is associated and outputs the information at the output device. Subsequent triggering of the same area causes the control unit to read another folder related to the target floor and output the information therein.
US11192747B1
A flexible conduit dispenser case is disclosed. An outer body defines an inner chamber where flexible conduit can be coiled. The flexible conduit is coiled around a rotating hub, which makes the flexible conduit easier to dispense. The flexible conduit dispenser case can be locked to help to retain the flexible conduit. The flexible conduit emerges from an exit port on the handle of the flexible conduit dispenser case for ease of access and control. Also disclosed is a planar base which holds the flexible conduit dispenser case in position for increased ease of dispensing the flexible conduit and engagement members on the rotating hub increase the retention of the flexible conduit.
US11192746B2
The present invention relates to an automatic package device, which may include a rack and a power control box provided on the rack. The cutter blade transportation device is provided on the rack along the X axis direction. Below the cutter blade transportation device and inside the rack, lower film feeding device is provided. At the rear side of the rack, the upper film feeding device is provided. At the front end of the cutter blade transportation device and on the rack are provided a blade feeding rail and cutter blade carrying device cooperating with each other. At the rear end of the cutter blade transportation device is provided a film sealing device which cooperates with the upper film feeding device and lower film feeding device. At the rear end of the film sealing device and on the rack is provided a dragging device fitting the blade strip. At the back side of the dragging device is provided a transverse cutting device fitting the blade strip. The present invention may achieve automatic feeding by the cutter blade carrying device. The dragging device may extend the upper and lower film material back and forth repeatedly. And the hot-pressing process may be accomplished by the film sealing device. The present invention may automatically seal the blades and the cutting device may separate the product one by one. At last the packaging process may be accomplished with high degree of automation and greatly improve production efficiency.
US11192736B2
An image forming device includes an image forming unit to form an image on a work, a conveyance unit to convey the work in a predetermined conveyance direction, a conveyance guide member, a suction unit, and a suction control unit. The conveyance guide member is a plate-shaped member which has a plurality of suction holes and guides conveyance of the work by the conveyance unit from below. The suction unit includes a suction device which generates suction air by sucking air in a space on an upper side of the conveyance guide member via the plurality of suction holes, and closely contacts the work to the conveyance guide member by the suction air. The suction control unit changes a sucking force of the suction device according to a length in the work width direction of the work guided by the conveyance guide member.
US11192730B1
A material transfer system for a machine having a conveyor adapted to transfer material into a material holding space of a receptacle. The material transfer system also includes an adjustable deflector positioned proximate to a discharge end of the conveyor. The material transfer system further includes a sensor positioned proximate to the discharge end of the conveyor. The sensor is configured to monitor the material holding space of the receptacle. The material transfer system includes a controller communicably coupled with the adjustable deflector and the sensor. The controller is configured to receive a first input signal from at least one of the sensor and a machine operator for adjusting a position of the adjustable deflector, determine an optimal position of the adjustable deflector based on receipt of the first input signal, and generate a first command signal for adjusting the position of the adjustable deflector to the optimal position.
US11192729B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are described for providing a multiple process workflow. The system includes a first process device configured to convey at least a portion of a printed element and an apparatus. The apparatus includes a storage section, an input section configured to receive the at least a portion of the printed element, a gripper configured to selectively transport the at least a portion of the printed element from the input section to the storage section and to selectively transport the at least a portion of the printed element from the storage section, and an output section configured to selectively transfer the at least a portion of the printed element from the storage section. The system further includes a second process device configured to perform at least one operation on the at least a portion of the printed element.
US11192724B2
An inclined shaft continuous feeding system for solid backfilling materials includes a surface loading system, an inclined shaft transportation system, and a downhole unloading system. The inclined shaft transportation system is arranged between the surface loading system and the underground unloading system. The inclined shaft transportation system includes a bottom unloading dumper, support guide wheels, a guide rail, a drive wheel, a reverse wheel, and a traction steel wire rope configured between the drive wheel and the reverse wheel. The present invention can realize a steady, continuous and efficient transportation of the solid backfilling materials from the surface to down hole. Moreover, the material transportation system does not wear easily, has long service life and low material transportation cost.
US11192723B2
A cleanable frame and a method for making a cleanable frame having a simplified frame design. A hygienic conveyor frame assembly comprises a plurality of hollow tubular sections joined together to form an evacuated, sealed conveyor frame support structure that functions as a sterilization zone. An integral carryway is placed on the support structure. Lifters coupled to the conveyor frame can lift the carryway and conveyor belt for cleaning. Infeed and outfeed assemblies are also movable between operating and cleaning positions. A sensor can monitor the conditions of the frame interior to ensure that the vacuum is maintained and initiate a corrective action if the vacuum seal is breached.
US11192719B2
An automated decant system is disclosed for processing pallets of cased goods received at a facility, extracting packaging for the cases and transferring eaches within the cases to totes, possibly organized by SKU in sub-totes within the tote.
US11192715B2
Disclosed is a bucket for receiving oral wastes of a user. The bucket includes a container and an Anti-splash back apparatus. The container receives the oral wastes of the user. The container incorporates a base and a container wall extending upward from the base, said container wall having an inner surface and an outer surface. The container incorporates an open top for receiving the oral wastes of the user. The Anti-splash back apparatus during intended usage is intended to maintain the oral wastes within the container. The Anti-splash back apparatus includes a first blade and a second base, both configured within the inner surface of the container sidewall. The first blade extends across the voluminous void of the container at an acute angle from the base meeting the inner surface of the container sidewall. The second blade extends across the voluminous void of the container at an obtuse angle from the base within the container sidewall. The first blade and the second blade are configured to extend along a path substantially parallel to the base. The first blade and the second blade intersect to form an Anti-splash back apparatus. Further, the bucket includes plurality of handles attached to outer surface of the container wall, which during intended usage allows the user to easily hold the container.
US11192712B2
Methods for handling bulk material in a manner that reduces dust, noise, and emissions are provided. The presently disclosed techniques use portable containers to transfer bulk material from a transportation unit to a blender inlet. The containers may be carried to the location on the transportation unit, where a hoisting mechanism is used to remove the container from the transportation unit and place it in a desired location. When bulk material is needed at the blender inlet, the hoisting mechanism may position the container of bulk material onto an elevated support structure. Once on the support structure, the container may be opened to release bulk material to a gravity feed outlet, which routes the bulk material from the container directly into the blender inlet. The disclosed containerized bulk material transfer system and method allows for reduced dust, noise, and emissions on location.
US11192708B2
A thermally insulated container includes a container main body having a storage section and an opening, a lid body that covers the opening of the container main body, and an inner box stored in the storage section. The lid body has a convex portion arranged along a periphery of the opening of the container main body and protruding toward an inside of the storage section when the lid body covers the opening. The convex portion faces the inner box, with a gap between the convex portion and the inner box when the lid body covers the opening.
US11192703B2
A pack including at least one single-use capsule or pod for a portioned beverage which has two opposite bases, and a side wall connecting the two bases defining therewith a chamber for containing an aromatic substance; the pack has a sealed container for containing the capsule or pod housed in a protective inert gas atmosphere; more specifically the sealed container copies at least in part the shape of the capsule or pod.
US11192689B2
At least one locking groove in a first storage container for receiving a sliding mechanism combined to a second storage container. The sliding mechanism selectively engages the locking groove of the first storage container to connect and hold the first storage container to the second storage container such that a portion of the sliding mechanism extends laterally away from the side surface of the container when the sliding mechanism is disengaged from the locking groove and wherein the portion of the sliding mechanism is coplanar with the side surface of the container when the sliding mechanism is engaged with the locking groove.
US11192688B2
A lid component for a paperboard packaging container, the lid component comprising a lid part and a connecting part, the lid part comprising a top portion and a side wall portion, the top portion having an outer lid surface, an inner lid surface opposite to the outer lid surface, and a peripheral edge surrounding the outer lid surface; and the connecting part comprising an upper portion and a lower portion and having a lower edge surface. Stacking members are arranged on the outer lid surface and comprise a lid component stacking step and a container stacking step, the lid component stacking step being arranged laterally outboard and below the container stacking step. The lower portion of the connecting part is adapted to be supported by the lid component stacking step. A lid component comprising a locking arrangement and paperboard packaging container comprising a lid component are also disclosed.
US11192678B2
The invention is an improvement of the well-known gable top packaging, commonly seen in milk and juice products. The improvement lies in the opening and closing of such packaging with a pull-to-open type opening. This invention addresses the problem that this type of packaging not is water tight after opening. The invention solves this leaking problem by adding a so called zip lock fastener in the opening area of the package. Zip lock fasteners are characterized by having an interlocking groove and ridge that form a tight seal when pressed together. When the user is folding in the pouring spout the zip lock fasteners meet and form a liquid tight joint. The invention is concerning the type and function of the zip lock and its placement. The invention describes as well how to produce gable-top packaging with this new liquid tight zip lock closure.
US11192675B2
A method of printing and applying a label to an item moving in a conveyance direction along a conveyance path involves: utilizing a print and labeling assembly that includes a label stock path that feeds label stock past a printer to print on a label of the label stock to produce a printed label that is dispensed in a first direction onto a label applying belt that moves in a second direction, wherein the first direction is substantially perpendicular to the second direction such that the printed label moves onto the label applying belt from a lateral side of the label applying belt; and the label applying belt moves the printed label into position to engage with the item as it moves along the conveyance path. A label print and apply system and apparatus is also provided.
US11192670B2
A cyclic packaging system for packaging product groups in folded boxes includes a supply device for supplying the product groups, a store for providing a plurality of folded box blanks, and a packing device for packaging the product groups in associated folded boxes, the packing device being arranged on the side of the supply device facing the store. The packaging system further comprises an additional packing device for packing product groups in folded boxes, the additional packing device being arranged on the side of the supply device facing away from the one packing device. Irrespective of whether the two packing devices are loaded with product groups from the same supply device, the two stores of the packing devices can be arranged on the same side of the packaging systems.
US11192667B2
Various embodiments provide multi-layered self-healing materials, capable of repairing puncture damage. The multi-layered self-healing materials, capable of repairing puncture damage of the various embodiments may be constructed by sandwiching a reactive (e.g., oxygen sensitive) liquid monomer formulation between two solid polymer panels, such as a polymer panel of Barex 210 IN (PBG) serving as the front layer panel and a polymer panel of Surlyn® 8940 serving as the back layer panel. The various embodiments may provide methods to produce multi-layered healing polymer systems. The various embodiments may provide a two-tier, self-healing material system that provides a non-intrusive capability to mitigate mid to high velocity impact damage in structures.
US11192666B2
A space vehicle includes one or more magnetorquers operable to change an attitude of the space vehicle in an external magnetic field, each magnetorquer comprising a coil, and a switching circuit for short-circuiting the coil of at least one of the magnetorquers so that a closed electric circuit comprising said coil is formed, for damping tumbling motion of the space vehicle in the external magnetic field. The switching circuit is configured to short-circuit the coil of the at least one magnetorquer upon occurrence of a condition indicative of end-of-life or failure of the space vehicle. The application further relates to a corresponding method of operating a space vehicle.
US11192663B2
As shearing blades of a first jaw portion, a shearing machines includes: a tip blade; a pair of first parallel shearing blades bent at an obtuse angle to the biting direction of the tip blade and disposed both sides of the blade width; and a pair of second parallel shearing blades bent at an obtuse angle to an attaching portion of the first parallel shearing blades and disposed on both sides of the blade width. As a tip blade, the shearing machine includes: a point blade a pair of tip tapered blades disposed on both sides of an end portion and whose blade width is increased toward the rear end; and a pair of tapered blades bent at an obtuse angle to an attaching portion of the rear end portion of the tip tapered blades and disposed toward the first parallel shearing blades.
US11192658B2
An inflatable slide may comprise a ramp portion and a slide portion having a head end attached to the ramp portion and a toe end opposite the head end. A ramp barrier readiness indicator may include a bendable portion located proximate the head end of the slide portion. The ramp barrier readiness indicator may be configured to pivot between a raised position and a lowered position in response to inflation of the slide portion.
US11192652B1
A dress cover installable over a seatback of a passenger seat and having an integrated adjustable lumbar support device is disclosed. In embodiments, the dress cover includes a fabric outer shell and a seat cushion within the outer shell. The lumbar support device is disposed inside a pocket set into the dress cover and corresponding to the lumbar area of the seat occupant. The pocket extends laterally between left-side and right-side slots, each slot held closed by a zipper within which a slider tracks up and down to adjust the lumbar support device. As the slider tracks along the zipper it opens and closes the zipper within the body of the slider, maintaining its slot in a closed configuration. By adjusting the sliders up or down, the occupant may adjust the position of the lumbar support device through the dress cover.
US11192647B2
The invention comprises of a UAV designed to limit visually contrast and audibility in flight for covert surveillance operations, a method of configuring the UAVs structure to further reduce its visual signature to take account for the atmospheric and terrestrial environment it will operate in and a method of conducting a covert surveillance operation to actively minimise the UAVs visual & auditory signature from the viewpoint of an individual under surveillance. Both passive and active illumination are used to reduce the visual signature of the UAV. The UAV is actively camouflaged using lighting techniques that utilises the limitations of the human visual system and the optical effects of light interacting with the terrain, atmosphere and aircraft. The visual camouflage is directional. The audible signature of the UAV is reduced through the design of the propulsion system and the mode in which the UAV is operated.
US11192643B2
A method for predicting vibrations in an aircraft comprising an active vibration reduction system includes estimating a first vibration amplitude or frequency resulting from adjustments by the active vibration reduction system and the respective sensitivities of the aircraft depending on the flying state using a statistical mathematical process, recording a second vibration amplitude or frequency by a sensor, generating a pseudo-vibration profile by combining the first and second vibration amplitudes or frequencies, comparing the pseudo-vibration profile with a predefined target vibration profile, and outputting a signal when a specific threshold value has been exceeded.
US11192640B2
An emergency extension system for extending at least one aircraft undercarriage, the emergency extension system comprising both electromechanical actuators, each electromechanical actuator having an identification component arranged to allocate an identifier to said electromechanical actuator, which identifier depends in particular on a function performed by said electromechanical actuator, and also an electrical card having a delay component arranged to delay actuation of a the electromechanical actuator by an actuation delay that depends on the identifier allocated to the electromechanical actuator, the electromechanical actuators of the emergency extension system thus being arranged to be actuated in succession in an actuation sequence that is defined by the actuation delays.
US11192636B2
An actuation system for a control surface of an aircraft includes a drive lever. The drive lever includes a coupling end configured to pivotably couple to a plurality of wing attach fittings and a lever end. The lever end includes a first actuator fitting configured to pivotably couple to a first actuator on a forward side of the drive lever; a second actuator fitting configured to pivotably couple to a second actuator on an aft side of the drive lever; a first drive link fitting configured to couple, via a first drive link, to a control surface of an aircraft; and a second drive link fitting configured to couple, via a second drive link, to the control surface of the aircraft.
US11192629B2
An aircraft (2) including a wing (1), the wing (1) having a fixed wing (3) and a wing tip device (4) at the tip of the fixed wing (3), the wing tip device (4) being rotatable relative to the fixed wing (3) between flight and ground configurations, the aircraft including a rotational joint (10) with a rotation mechanism (11) that rotatably couples the wing tip device (4) to the fixed wing (3) and a locking mechanism including a locking bore (53, 54) and a locking pin (51) that is receivable in the locking bore to lock the wing tip device (4) in one of the flight or ground configurations, wherein the rotational joint includes an alignment mechanism including an alignment pin (61) and an alignment bore (62, 63) and at least one of the alignment pin and alignment bore is tapered such that engagement of the alignment pin (61) in the alignment bore acts to guide the locking bore and locking pin into alignment.
US11192628B2
An articulating flap support housing includes a flap connected to a wing with the flap having a range of deployed positions. An aft fairing is connected to the flap and configured to rotate with the flap through the range of deployed positions. A forward fairing is rotatably connected to the aft fairing. The forward fairing acts as a counterbalance to the aft fairing and flap.
US11192622B2
A heat dissipation structure includes a housing configured to receive a heat generating device. The housing includes a first air inlet, a first air outlet, and an alloy heat dissipation device disposed in the housing and including heat dissipation fins disposed in parallel. A heat dissipation air channel is formed between two adjacent heat dissipation fins. The heat dissipation air channel includes a second air inlet and a second air outlet, the second air outlet being connected with the first air outlet. The heat dissipation structure further includes a heat dissipation fan configured to provide a heat dissipation air flow to an inside space of the housing. The heat dissipation fan is disposed inside the housing, and includes a third air inlet and a third air outlet. The third air inlet is connected with the first air inlet and the third air outlet is connected with the second air inlet.
US11192617B1
A personal watercraft has laterally spaced foot channels, a passenger seat, an engine compartment, and a back end. A receiver is universally positioned within the foot channels adjacent to the back end. A support member with a cylindrical knuckle and a strap is positioned within the engine compartment below the passenger seat thereby positioning a secondary end of the strap exteriorly of the engine compartment adjacent to the receiver. An insulated container with a closed bottom and an open top is removably positioned within the receiver. A lid is operably coupled to the open top. The receiver has a primary arm with a primary suction cup and a secondary arm with a secondary suction cup. The primary and secondary suction cups are provided for parallel alignment and vertical engagement with an exterior surface of the engine compartment.
US11192614B2
The present invention provides a capturing mechanism for the recovery of at least one vessel to at least one marine platform; said at least one vessel having at least one engagement device either permanently or at least partially reversibly connectable to the same; said capturing mechanism comprising: a. at least one tensioned capturing line connected to said at least one marine platform; and b, at least one line maneuvering mechanism configured to displace said at least one tensioned capturing line in at least one direction selected from a group consisting of up, down, left, right, forward, backward, playable into said at least one marine plat form, playable out of said at least one marine platform, playable into and out of the water and any combination thereof.
US11192607B2
An electric front derailleur is basically provided with a base, a chain guide, a linkage and an electric motor unit. The base is configured to be mounted to a bicycle. The chain guide is configured to guide a chain. The linkage movably couples the chain guide to the base in a forward-rearward direction to move the chain guide between a retracted position and an extended position in a mounted state where the base is mounted to the bicycle. The electric motor unit is supported on the base and operatively coupled to the linkage to move the chain guide between the retracted position and the extended position. The electric motor unit is arranged at least partly closer to the bicycle than the chain guide.
US11192589B2
A subframe structure of a front suspension that leads a subframe and a vehicle driving apparatus to the lower side after separation of a rear portion of the subframe due to a frontal collision without increasing weight and parts. A subframe structure of the front suspension provides a subframe that supports a vehicle driving apparatus in a mounting manner, and a rear portion of the subframe is mounted on a lower portion of a vehicle body via a fastening member. Fastening between the subframe and the fastening member is configured such that the rear portion of the subframe is separated when a collision load to a vehicle rear side is applied to the subframe. A leading guide portion that abuts against the fastening member and leads the subframe to a lower side after separation from the fastening member is integrally formed on the rear portion of the subframe.
US11192586B2
A lower vehicle-body structure of a vehicle includes a first cross member disposed on an intermediate portion of a front floor panel in a vehicle front-rear direction as a bridge in a vehicle width direction; a second cross member disposed in a kick-up portion between the front floor panel and a rear floor panel as a bridge in the vehicle width direction at a position in which at least a center portion in the vehicle width direction is higher than the first cross member; and a battery unit disposed below at least the front floor panel to a rear end position of the front floor panel. A high-strength portion for the front floor panel is formed on a rear end of the front floor panel on a lower end portion of the kick-up portion, and is coupled to both of a pair of left and right side sills.
US11192584B2
A method and apparatus that control lateral movement of a vehicle are provided. The method includes receiving vehicle information and path information of the vehicle, determining a center of vehicle rotation from the vehicle information, minimizing a path tracking error based on the path information of the vehicle, determining a road wheel angle command or a steering torque command using non-linear optimization based on the minimized path tracking error, and controlling an actuator according to the road wheel angle command or steering torque command.
US11192581B2
A vehicle steering system includes a steering actuator which acts on steered wheels, an actuation unit, a feedback actuator to which a user request for a steering angle can be applied using a steering input means, which outputs a feedback signal to the steering input means in response to the request and a driving state of the vehicle. A signal transmission transfers the request to the actuation unit. The actuation unit actuates the steering actuator to deflect the wheels. When a monitor detects a malfunction of the feedback actuator as a fault situation, the feedback signal and the signal transmission is modified or generated according to multiple options.
US11192570B2
An apparatus for heating a steering wheel and for detecting a steering wheel contact comprises a steering wheel armature (10) made from electrically conductive material and an electric heating conductor (12) arranged outside of the steering wheel armature (10). The apparatus further comprises a control and evaluation device (18) connected to the steering wheel armature (10) and the electric heating conductor (10) by means of which control and evaluation device the electric heating conductor (12) is repeatedly operated temporarily during a heating operation as a heating element for heating the steering wheel and temporarily during a measuring operation as a sensor element for detecting a steering wheel contact. The control and evaluation device (18) is configured so as to maintain the steering wheel armature (10) on a predetermined and especially constant potential at least during each measuring operation.
US11192568B2
A stroller is provided with the ability to removably couple and decouple a seat from the stroller as needed. The stroller can include a stroller frame. The stroller can also include one or more front wheels attached to the stroller frame and one or more rear wheels attached to the stroller frame. The stroller can also include a first seat couple to the stroller frame. The stroller can include first and second seat attachment housings. Each of the seat attachment housings can include a cavity for receiving a corresponding one of the first and second seat attachment adapters. Each of the seat attachment housings can also include a door or cover to prevent access to the respective cavity when not in use. The seat attachment adapters can be coupled to the respective seat attachment housings and a second seat can be coupled to the seat attachment adapters.
US11192563B2
An autonomous vehicle including a sensor system that outputs a sensor signal indicative of a condition of the autonomous vehicle. The vehicle also includes a user interface device with a display. A computing system determines, based upon a profile of the passenger, that support is to be provided textually to the passenger when the support is provided to the passenger. The computing system further detects occurrence of an event that has been identified as potentially causing discomfort to the passenger. The computing system yet further sets a predefined support message defined in an account corresponding to the event maintained in a database prior to occurrence of the event as a support message to be presented to the passenger. The computing system additionally causes the display to present the support message textually, wherein the textual support message solicits feedback from the passenger of the autonomous vehicle.
US11192560B1
Described are techniques for fair anomaly detection. The techniques include generating an anomaly detection model based on a Gaussian distribution of historical data, a mean vector of the Gaussian distribution, and a precision matrix of the Gaussian distribution. The mean vector and the precision matrix can be generated by reducing a function below a threshold, where the function can include the Gaussian distribution, a first regularization term configured to generate similar anomaly scores for inputs with similar fair features and independent of unfair features, and a second regularization term configured to generate similar anomaly localization scores for the inputs with the similar fair features and independent of the unfair features. The techniques further include inputting a new data to the anomaly detection model and generating an anomaly score and an anomaly localization score associated with the new data based on the Gaussian distribution, the mean vector, and the precision matrix.
US11192559B2
A driving assistance system includes a driving readiness degree estimation unit configured to estimate a driving readiness degree relating to a driving consciousness of the driver based on the travel state of the vehicle or the driving operation of the vehicle by the driver and the traveling environment of the vehicle, a proportional gain calculation unit configured to calculate a proportional gain based on the driving readiness degree and the speed of the vehicle, and an assistance torque calculation unit configured to calculate the assistance torque according to a value obtained by multiplying a difference between the target steering angle and the actual steering angle by the proportional gain. If the speed is constant, the proportional gain calculation unit is configured to calculate the proportional gain as a smaller value as the driving readiness degree becomes lower.
US11192556B2
A vehicle driving apparatus, configured to drive a vehicle including first and second wheels, includes first and second motors, first and second power transmission mechanisms, and a controller. The first motor is configured to generate first driving torque that rotates the first wheel. The second motor is configured to generate second driving torque that rotates the second wheel in a direction same as a direction in which the first wheel is rotated. The first and second power transmission mechanisms are configured to transmit the first and second driving torque from the first and second motors to the first and second wheels, respectively. The controller is configured to perform torque distribution control in a case where a gear rattle occurrence condition is satisfied. The torque distribution control drives the first motor to thereby decrease the first driving torque and drives the second motor to thereby increase the second driving torque.
US11192549B2
An automotive adaptive cruise control system for a host motor vehicle configured to operate in at least two different operating modes comprising a first operating mode, in which a current speed of the host vehicle is controlled to maintain a cruise speed, and a second operating mode, in which the current speed of the host vehicle is controlled to maintain a cruise distance to a leading vehicle, wherein the system is configured to: detect approaching to a traffic light and determine a light signal emitted thereby, signal to the driver the presence of the detected traffic light and the determined light signal, if the traffic light emits a red or amber light signal, estimating a driver reaction time, determining a higher threshold distance and a lower threshold distance from the traffic light, and warning the driver of the host vehicle of the need to slow it down if, after the driver reaction time has elapsed: i) the host motor vehicle has not decreased its speed by more than a calibratable threshold, ii) the current speed of the host vehicle is higher than a minimum speed, iii) either the distance of the host vehicle from the traffic light is lower than the higher threshold distance and the light signal emitted by the traffic light is red, or the distance of the host vehicle from the traffic light is between the higher and lower threshold distances and the light signal emitted by the traffic light is amber, and iv) a service brake of the host vehicle is unoperated.
US11192542B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for parking autonomous vehicles are provided. Aspects include determining, by an autonomous vehicle, an expected period of time that the autonomous vehicle will be idle and identifying, by the autonomous vehicle, a first parking area and a first parking threshold time associated with the first parking area. Based at least in part on a determination that the first parking threshold time is greater than the expected period of time, aspects include moving the autonomous vehicle to the first parking area. Based at least in part on a determination that the first parking threshold time is less than the expected period of time, aspects also include identifying, by the autonomous vehicle, a second parking area and moving the autonomous vehicle to the second parking area.
US11192532B2
Disclosed herein is a vehicle control system capable of improving driving stability and providing safe fun driving to a driver by varying and controlling a regenerative braking torque generated by a motor during coasting. The vehicle control system according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes: a motor configured to provide a driving force to a wheel; a wheel sensor configured to detect a rotational speed of the wheel; and a controller configured to control the motor to generate a first regenerative braking torque during coasting, and to control the motor to generate a second regenerative braking torque lower than the first regenerative braking torque when a wheel slip of the wheel is detected based on an output of the wheel sensor.
US11192521B2
A vehicular seat belt device includes a first pretensioner provided in a retractor and configured to apply tensile force to a shoulder belt portion of a webbing, a second pretensioner provided in a belt anchor part and configured to apply tensile force to a lap belt portion of the webbing, a third pretensioner provided in a side portion of the vehicle seat opposite to the belt anchor part and configured to apply tensile force to the lap belt portion via a buckle, and a controller. The controller is configured to activate the first pretensioner at a time of predicting vehicle collision, and activate the second pretensioner and the third pretensioner after detection of collision.
US11192519B2
Provided is a gas generator including the housing with a gas discharge port. The housing has a circular shape and includes a top plate, a bottom plate, and a peripheral wall, the housing having a ratio of an axial length L to an outer diameter D satisfying L/D≤1.1. The gas discharge port includes first opening portions having low burst pressure (P1) of the closing member and second opening portions having burst pressure (P2) higher than the burst pressure (P1). The first opening portions and second opening portions are formed on a circumference of a same circle in at least one of the peripheral wall or the top plate, and the first opening portion and the second opening portion, which are adjacent to each other in a circumference direction, are arranged such that an angle (θ1) formed by a first center line extending from a center of the same circle to a center of the first opening portion and a second center line extending from the center of the same circle to a center of the second opening portion is in a range from 15° to 65°.
US11192517B2
An assembly includes an airbag having an inflation chamber. The inflation chamber is defined by a first inflatable section, a second inflatable section, and a duct fluidly connecting the first inflatable section and the second inflatable section. A tether is external to the inflation chamber. The tether has a cinching loop encircling the duct. The tether has a tail extending from the cinching loop and the tail is fixed to the airbag.
US11192505B2
A rocker molding includes a vertical wall portion provided under a rocker in a vehicle upper-lower direction, a bottom wall portion extending from a lower end portion of the vertical wall portion to an outer side in a vehicle width direction, and a side wall portion extending upwardly in the vehicle upper-lower direction from an outer end portion of the bottom wall portion in the vehicle width direction. A sound absorbing material is provided in a penetrating portion that is provided in a grange from a portion of the vertical wall portion to an inner portion of the bottom wall portion in the vehicle width direction.
US11192503B2
Systems and apparatus for preventing spilling of a container inside a vehicle. The system includes an arm connected to a device or surface within the vehicle. The system also includes an engagement device connected to the arm and configured to engage a carrying device holding the container, the arm having a length such that the carrying device is suspended and avoids contact with any object inside of the vehicle.
US11192497B1
A vehicle warning system is for use with a vehicle having an air horn (30) and a vehicle speed sensor (19) which provides a vehicle speed signal to a vehicle data bus (20). The vehicle warning system has at least one brake pressure sensor (22) to provide a brake pressure signal, an air valve (26), and a controller (24). The controller determines that the brake pressure signal indicates an excessive brake pressure and that the vehicle speed signal indicates an excessive vehicle speed, and opens the air valve to activate the air horn. The controller may read the vehicle speed from the vehicle data bus at periodic intervals or when it determines that there is an excessive brake pressure. The brake pressure is considered to be excessive if it exceeds a brake pressure threshold. The vehicle speed is considered to be excessive if it exceeds a vehicle speed threshold.
US11192486B2
The vehicle-mounted cup holder with a wireless charging function includes a shell. The shell is formed with a cup holding body and a mobile phone accommodating chamber. The mobile phone accommodating chamber includes a mobile phone supporting face that is forward inclined, and both sides of the mobile phone supporting face bend upwards so as to respectively form a side board. Electricity supply coils are tightly fixed on the lower end of the mobile phone supporting face, and the electricity supply coils are electrically connected with a circuit board mounted in the shell. The circuit board is provided with a power supply input wire. A side wall of the shell is provided with one or more charging ports connected with the circuit board.
US11192485B2
A vehicle control system includes an object placement portion in which an object can be placed, an automated driving controller configured to execute automated driving for automatically controlling at least one of acceleration or deceleration and steering of a vehicle, and an object placement controller configured to change the object placement portion from a first mode to a second mode in which the object placement portion is more easily used by an occupant of the vehicle than in the first mode in accordance with a control state of automated driving executed by the automated driving controller.
US11192479B1
A seat assembly and a method of manufacture. The seat assembly may include a seat bottom frame that has a perimeter tube assembly that may define an opening and a cross tube assembly that may extend across the opening. The perimeter tube assembly, the cross tube assembly, or both may have a telescoping tube joint.
US11192478B2
A device for producing an edge strip may have a supply unit with at least two openings for separately supplying an edge strip core and a material strip of a casing for the edge strip core. The material strip may be provided with a decorative element, an adapter unit, and a processing unit. The supply unit arranges the edge strip core on a surface side of the material strip which forms the inner face of the casing, and the adapter unit is designed to fold the material strip around the edge strip core. Free ends of the casing protrude from the edge strip core and lie one over the other, and the processing unit connects the free ends lying one over the other together. A method for producing an edge strip using such a device and to a seat cover with an edge strip is also included.
US11192477B2
The present disclosure relates to a seat that may have a support structure and a pad having a support wire attachable to the support structure. A retainer may be provided which is fixed at one end through an opening in the support structure and at the opposite end onto the support wire. The retainer may have a mounting member to fix through the opening and a hook to catch the support wire, the mounting member having a use position and a mounting position that is inclined relative to the use position. The mounting member and the hook may be joined by a spacer bar.
US11192476B2
A vehicle seat having a residual spring travel controller and an air spring, the residual spring travel controller and the air spring each having a first end that is connected to a first connecting link of the vehicle seat and each having a second end that is connected to a second connecting link of the vehicle seat, and the residual spring travel controller comprising a piston element that is connected to the first end of the residual spring travel controller and a rod element that is connected to the second end of the residual spring travel controller, it being possible to bring the piston element into contact with a valve element or a switch element by means of a rotary and/or sliding movement with respect to the rod element to adjust an amount of air of the air spring.
US11192470B2
A vehicle device system for a motor vehicle, having at least one vehicle device, in particular a vehicle seat or vehicle table, and comprising a mount fastened or fastenable to a vehicle body for detachably locking the vehicle device to the vehicle body, and comprising a key-operated switch, which establishes or interrupts at least one electrical contact between the vehicle device and the vehicle depending on its switching position. It is provided that the key-operated switch is fastened on the vehicle device, which is longitudinally displaceably mounted/mountable on the mount, and interacts with a contact carriage, which is longitudinally displaceably mounted on the mount.
US11192466B2
An electric charge management device for a vehicle includes a display screen and circuitry. The circuitry sets a first threshold value for a first discharge level of a battery of the vehicle. The first discharge level is greater than a zero state of charge (SOC) of the battery. The circuitry sets a second threshold value for a second discharge level of the battery based on first information associated with the vehicle and/or a user of the vehicle. The circuitry determines a first energy cost for an energy amount between the second discharge level and a current SOC of the battery. The circuitry controls the vehicle to transfer the energy amount to an external electric power system, which is different from the electric charge management device, based on the determined first energy cost.
US11192465B2
A method for operating a charging station for charging a plurality of electric vehicles, in particular electric automobiles, wherein the charging station is connected to an electricity supply grid at a grid connection point in order thereby to be supplied with electrical energy from the electricity supply grid, the grid connection point is arranged on a first grid section of the supply grid and at least one further electrical consumer is connected to at least one second grid section of the supply grid, the first and the second grid section are connected to one another, the at least one further consumer and/or the at least one second grid section are able to be influenced by the charging station, the charging station is controlled such that a grid voltage in at least one of the grid sections is controlled, and/or a power flow at least in the at least one second grid section is controlled.
US11192464B2
A vehicle-mounted power source device includes: a power storage unit; a charging unit; a discharging unit; and a control unit which controls operations of the charging unit and the discharging unit in accordance with an activation signal. When the control unit receives the activation signal, the terminal voltage of the power storage unit becomes the first voltage through a charging operation of the charging unit, and when the control unit finishes receiving the activation signal, the discharging unit starts a discharging operation, and the terminal voltage of the power storage unit is reduced to a second voltage lower than the first voltage. The charging unit applies a third voltage lower than the second voltage to the power storage unit between (i) when the terminal voltage of the power storage unit becomes lower than the second voltage or when a predetermined length of time has elapsed since the terminal voltage of the power storage unit became lower than the second voltage and (ii) when the control unit receives the activation signal again.
US11192460B2
A method and power transmitter for efficiently controlling power transmission to one or more power receivers in a wireless multi-power transmission system are provided. The method includes performing, when a predetermined measurement cycle arrives, a load measurement; comparing a current load measurement value with a previous load measurement value; determining whether the current load measurement value is increased over the previous load measurement value by at least as much as a first predetermined threshold; gradually increasing, when the load measurement value is increased over the previous load measurement value by at least as much as the first threshold, a transmission power value until a request for a subscription to a wireless multi-power transmission network from a power reception target within a predetermined time limit; and stopping, when the request for the subscription is not received before the time limit is exceeded, power transmission to the power reception target.
US11192459B2
A method for charging a traction energy storage device of an at least partially electrically driven vehicle includes detecting an interruption of a charging process, and determining a parameter which represents a reason for the interruption of the charging process. The method also includes performing at least one of the following measures as a function of the determined parameter: continuing the charging process in an unchanged or changed fashion, and performing a specific signaling process.
US11192457B2
A charging control device for charging an electric vehicle according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first switch unit for receiving a first control signal from the outside; a first control unit for receiving the first control signal through the first switch unit; a second switch unit for receiving a second control signal from the outside; a second control unit which is woken up by the first control unit and receives the second control signal through the second switch unit; and a motor control unit which is controlled by the second control unit and controls driving of a motor for a charging flap, wherein the second control unit disables the first switch and enables the second switch when the second control unit is woken up by the first control unit.
US11192451B2
A method for managing energy to a transport climate control system from a vehicle electrical system is provided. The vehicle electrical system includes a vehicle power network and an auxiliary power network connected to a transport climate control load network via a DC regulated bus. The method includes monitoring a vehicle voltage of the vehicle power network and determining whether the vehicle power network requires holdover assistance based on the vehicle voltage. Also, the method includes the bus sending vehicle power energy generated by the vehicle power network to the transport climate control load network without assistance of the auxiliary power network when the controller determines that the vehicle power network has sufficient power capacity available, and the bus sending the vehicle power energy and auxiliary power energy stored by the auxiliary power network to the transport climate control load network when the controller determines that the vehicle power network requires holdover assistance.
US11192448B2
An axle assembly for frame rail vehicles is described herein. The axle assembly includes a drive unit that includes a first drive unit assembly, a second drive unit assembly, a first axle shaft, and a second axle shaft. The first drive unit assembly includes a first electric machine, a first output assembly, and a first offset gear reduction assembly. The second drive unit assembly includes a second electric machine, a second output assembly, and a second offset gear reduction assembly. The first electric machine and the second electric machine are orientated in a same direction, and spaced such that the axle centerline axis is positioned between the first electric machine and the second electric machine. The first offset gear reduction assembly is spaced from the second offset gear reduction assembly such that the axle centerline axis is positioned between the first offset gear reduction and the second offset gear reduction.
US11192447B2
A volume tank that houses a material is provided. The volume tank can include a first bulk head, a second bulk head opposite the first bulk head, a non-symmetrical frustoconical shell section, a cylindrical shell section and a transition section in between the non-symmetrical frustoconical shell section and the cylindrical shell section. The volume tank is configured to be coupled to a portion of a frame of a vehicle, and in a non-limiting embodiment, to a school bus.
US11192443B2
The invention relates to a transmission (100) for a hybrid drive arrangement which can be coupled to two drive assemblies (7, 8), comprising an input shaft (10) and an output shaft (11), at least one first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh shifting element (SE1, SE2, SE3, SE4, SE5, SE6, SE7), and at least one planetary gear (5). The input shaft can be coupled to a first transmission shaft (16) by means of the first shifting element (SE1) and the input shaft can be coupled to a second transmission shaft (17) by means of the second shifting element (SE2), and the first transmission shaft (16) can be coupled to the second transmission shaft (17) by means of the third shifting element (SE3), and the first transmission shaft (16) can be coupled to the sun gear of the planetary gear (5) by means of the fourth shifting element (SE4), the first transmission shaft (16) can be coupled to the ring gear of the planetary gear (5) by means of the fifth transmission shaft (SE5), the second transmission shaft (17) can be coupled to the planet carrier of the planetary gear (5) by means of the sixth shifting element (SE6) and the second transmission shaft (17) can be coupled to the sun gear of the planetary gear (5) by means of the seventh shifting element (SE7), the output shaft (11) being coupled to the planet carrier of the planetary gear (5).
US11192440B2
A hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, an electric-power generator, an electric motor and a transmission device. The transmission device includes an input gear, an output gear, an intermediate gear, a case and a connection-disconnection device. The connection-disconnection device is configured to switch between connecting and disconnecting a path along which the drive force is inputted to the input gear. When viewed from a direction long a rotational axis, a rotational axis of an intermediate gear is positioned vertically higher than a straight line that links a rotational axis of the input gear and a rotational axis of the output gear.
US11192439B2
This disclosure relates to a battery assembly with a plate having a compression limiting feature, and a corresponding electrified vehicle and method. An example battery assembly includes a wall having an inner surface and an outer surface. The wall also has a central opening. The battery assembly further includes a plate abutting the outer surface of the wall and covering the central opening. The plate also includes a main body and a post projecting from the main body toward the inner surface of the wall. Among other benefits, this arrangement limits compression of the wall and increases the ease of mounting components, such as electrical or fluid connectors, to the battery assembly.
US11192428B2
A vehicle air-conditioning device is provided which is capable of eliminating or suppressing vibration and noise generated due to the application of a counterpressure to an opening/closing valve. The vehicle air-conditioning device includes a refrigerant circuit R having a compressor 2, a radiator 4 to perform heat exchange between a refrigerant and air, an outdoor heat exchanger 7, a heat absorber 9, and a solenoid valve 40. The compressor 2 and the solenoid valve 40 are controlled to air-condition a vehicle interior. A decompression speed at a refrigerant inflow side of the solenoid valve when the compressor 2 is stopped and the solenoid valve 40 is closed is faster than that at a refrigerant outflow side thereof. When operation is stopped from a state in which the compressor 2 is operating with the solenoid valve 40 being in an opened state, the opened state of the solenoid valve 40 is maintained even after the compressor 2 is stopped.
US11192414B1
Multi-link suspension systems for vehicle are described having various linkage arms that connect to distinct points of a wheel mount. Each of the linkage arms are preferably coupled to the wheel mount via a spherical ball joint and mounted such that they can independently move with respect to the other linkage arms. A shock assembly is preferably mounted between two of the linkage arms on a separate links that is configured to vary its length based on movement of one or both of the two linkage arms.
US11192407B2
A regulator for establishing outlet fluid pressure. The regulator includes a valve body having a fluid pressure inlet in selective fluid communication with a fluid pressure outlet. A pilot pressure inlet is formed in the valve body and in fluid communication with a source of pilot pressure. Valving structure in the valve body establishes outlet fluid pressure as a function of pilot pressure. First adjustable structure within the valve body may establish a minimum outlet fluid pressure threshold without regard to pilot pressure. Second adjustable structure within the valve body may establish outlet fluid pressure offset relative to pilot pressure.
US11192406B2
A neutralization device that neutralizes static electricity on a portion of a vehicle exposed to outside. The neutralization device causes corona discharge according to a positive potential thereof. The neutralization device is attached to a surface exposed outwardly widthwise of the vehicle in at least one of an inner circumferential portion of a tire and a predetermined point of an outer surface of tire wheel.
US11192400B2
Sealing device for a wheel hub unit is disclosed herein, wherein the sealing device being able, during use, to form a static seal for protecting the wheel hub unit from any environmental pollutant and being provided with a screen, which is engaged with a collar of the wheel hub unit and has a bottom wall, a cylindrical side wall integral with and more or less perpendicular to the bottom wall. The sealing device is designed and structured to protect the wheel hub unit from any environmental contaminant that the wheel hub unit may be exposed to during usage.
US11192391B2
A feeding tray includes a first member supported, via a housing member, by a main body of a recording device configured to perform recording onto a medium, and a second member that includes a second support surface configured to support the medium and is coupled to the first member to be movable relatively to the first member, with a transport direction of the medium being a movement direction. The second member includes a second frame body forming an outer peripheral portion of the second member, and a plurality of second ribs spanning across the second frame body to form the second support surface.
US11192389B2
A laser marking system comprises at least one controller to control an array of optical devices, between a laser source and a scan head. The array applies a selected pattern of portions of the received spatial profile of the laser beam to the substrate to achieve a second intensity different from the first intensity of laser beam at a rate of power deposition relative to a rate of thermal diffusion in the substrate for a predetermined time interval to thermally heat locations of the substrate with the selected pattern of the portions. The second intensity effectuates carbonization of materials of the substrate to create a mark without ablation.
US11192386B2
To predict more accurately whether ink dots formed on the surface of paper by two nozzles arranged in a nozzle row and located at positions close to each other overlap. A luminance amount for each unit area surrounding each chart is derived from scanned data obtained by reading results of printing a plurality of charts (two-dot line chart corresponding to a nozzle pair of a nozzle of interest and a neighboring nozzle thereof among the plurality of nozzles) associated with a plurality of nozzles respectively. Then, based on the luminance amount for each unit area, the dot formation state in a dot formation line by the plurality of nozzles is determined.
US11192385B2
A liquid discharging apparatus has: a liquid storing chamber storing a liquid to be discharged from a discharge opening; a supply flow path supplying the liquid to the liquid storing chamber; a discharge flow path discharging the liquid from the liquid storing chamber; a circulation controller controlling a circulation operation to circulate, to the supply flow path, the liquid discharged through the discharge flow path; and a discharge controller controlling a discharge operation to discharge the liquid from the discharge opening. The circulation controller lowers the flow velocity of the liquid in the circulation operation below the flow velocity of the liquid in the circulation operation with the discharge operation being in progress, after which the circulation controller stops the circulation operation.
US11192382B2
A liquid cartridge includes: a housing; a liquid passage extending in a first lateral direction from the housing when the housing is in an operational posture; a sealing member provided in the liquid passage; a circuit board including an electrical contact; and a restricting surface positioned below the liquid passage. The restricting surface is capable of preventing the housing from moving in a second lateral direction opposite the first lateral direction. When the housing is in an operational posture, the liquid passage is positioned closer to the restricting surface than the circuit board is to the restricting surface with respect to a vertical direction perpendicular to the first lateral direction; and the circuit board and the restricting surface are positioned further in the second lateral direction relative to the sealing member.
US11192381B2
A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a recording head that ejects liquid; a sub-tank that is connected to the recording head and temporarily stores the liquid to be supplied to the recording head; a liquid tank that communicates with the sub-tank and is able to be filled with the liquid; a first atmosphere opening unit that is provided in the liquid tank; and a second atmosphere opening unit that is provided in the sub-tank. The second atmosphere opening unit is closable when the liquid tank is filled with the liquid, and the first atmosphere opening unit and the second atmosphere opening unit are able to open the liquid tank and the sub-tank to the atmosphere, respectively, when the sub-tank is filled with the liquid filled in the liquid tank by a hydraulic head pressure.
US11192379B2
There is provided a printing apparatus. A cap caps an ink ejection surface of a printhead. An ink suction path is connected to the cap and sucks the ink in the cap. An ink tank stores the ink to be supplied to the printhead. An ink supply path connects the printhead to the ink tank. A first closing unit closes the ink suction path. A second closing unit closes the ink supply path. A control unit is able to execute a first control mode in which the first closing unit closes the ink suction path and a second control mode in which the second closing unit closes the ink supply path.
US11192375B2
DOD ink delivery systems and methods are described herein that are used in DOD card printing systems of card processing systems for supplying ink for DOD printing on plastic cards of the type that bear personalized data unique to the intended cardholder and/or which bear other card information. The DOD ink delivery system is configured to recirculate the ink, or have a second pressure damper container that provides damping to eliminate large and abrupt spikes in ink pressure which can disturb the meniscus of the ink in each nozzle of the print head generated by a vacuum system, or simultaneously operate a supply pump at a lower flow rate than a return pump during an autofill/autodrain procedure on the ink delivery system.
US11192373B2
According to the present invention, a printing apparatus is provided, the printing apparatus comprises a printhead including an ink discharge surface on which plurality of orifices for discharging ink are arranged and configured to print an image, a cap configured to cap the ink discharge surface, and a supply unit configured to selectively supply one of a plurality of types of liquids into the cap.
US11192372B2
An apparatus for processing a substrate may include a stage on which a substrate is placed, an ink jet head assembly for discharging chemical liquid onto the substrate, and a gantry for holding the ink jet head assembly over the substrate on the stage. The ink jet head assembly may include an ink jet head for discharging the chemical liquid onto the substrate, a supporting member for holding the ink jet head, a fixing member being combined with supporting member to fix the supporting member to the fixing member, a protruding member disposed on the fixing member, and a receiving member provided in the supporting member to receive the protruding member.
US11192364B2
An electro-mechanical transducer includes a diaphragm plate on a substrate, a first electrode on the diaphragm plate, an electro-mechanical transducer film on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the electro-mechanical transducer film. One of the first electrode and the second electrode is a common electrode. Another of the first electrode and the second electrode is an individual electrode. At least a portion of the common electrode is laminated on and in contact with the diaphragm plate. The common electrode has a plurality of holes penetrating the common electrode in a lamination direction.
US11192363B2
An element substrate of a liquid ejection head includes an ejection opening array in which multiple ejection openings are arranged along a predetermined direction, pressure chambers communicating with the ejection openings, and heat generating elements for ejecting liquid, supplied to the pressure chambers, through the ejection openings. The element substrate also includes a predetermined supply path extending in the predetermined direction and communicating with the pressure chambers, a predetermined collection path communicating with the pressure chambers, multiple liquid supply ports communicating with the supply path at different positions in the predetermined direction, and a liquid collection port communicating with the collection path. Among the multiple liquid supply ports, at least a liquid supply port located at an end portion in the predetermined direction has an opening area larger than the opening area of the liquid collection port.
US11192361B2
A liquid-discharging-head includes a nozzle having a first-nozzle-portion having a first-sectional-area and a second-nozzle-portion having a second-sectional-area larger than the first-sectional-area, a liquid chamber which communicates with the nozzle, and a piezoelectric-element which changes a pressure inside the liquid chamber, in which the piezoelectric-element is driven from the control section, and the liquid-discharging-head executes a first control in which an apex of a liquid surface is drawn into the second-nozzle-portion in a state in which an inner wall surface of the first-nozzle-portion is covered by a liquid film by decreasing the pressure inside the liquid chamber, and a second control in which a shape of the apex of the liquid surface is inverted to a protruding shape towed the opening and the droplet is discharged from the nozzle by increasing the pressure inside the liquid chamber in a state in which the inner wall surface is covered by the liquid film.
US11192359B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a head which discharges a plurality of kinds of liquids; and a controller. The controller is configured to: calculate a total discharge amount of the liquids for a unit area of a recording medium based on discharge data for the unit area; determine whether the total discharge amount exceeds a predefined amount; in a case that the controller has determined that the total discharge amount exceeds the predefined amount, divide the discharge data into a plurality of pieces of divided discharge data, each of the pieces of divided discharge data indicating the total discharge amount of not more than the predefined amount; and perform a plurality of divided discharges for the unit area based on the pieces of divided discharge data.
US11192357B2
Although a conventional method of inspecting an ink discharge state in which the temperature change of the heater is detected enables accurate and high-speed inspection, due to the situation in which the inspection was performed, appropriate post-processing depending on the situation cannot be executed based on a result of the inspection. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the ink discharge state in detail. A plurality of modes are provided in accordance with the purpose of performing an inspection of the ink discharge state, and a discharge inspection threshold is provided for each of these modes. By selectively executing or continuously executing these modes, it is possible to determine the ink discharge state in more detail.
US11192353B2
An intake manifold for an additive manufacturing system includes a body defining a flow channel therein. The body includes an inlet end defining an inlet configured to intake gas and/or particles from a build area of the additive manufacturing system, and an outlet end defining an outlet that is fluidly connected to the inlet through the flow channel. The outlet is configured to be in fluid communication with an uptake manifold of the additive manufacturing system. The intake manifold also includes at least one mount extending from the outlet end of the body that is configured to rotatably mount the body to the uptake manifold.
US11192351B2
A method for surface preparation of a composite substrate prior to adhesive bonding. The surface preparation method includes applying a resin-containing peel ply onto a composite substrate, followed by co-curing. The resin-containing peel ply contains a non-removable textile carrier and a removable woven fabric embedded therein. After co-curing, the peel ply is removed from the composite substrate such that the removable woven fabric is removed but the non-removable textile carrier and a film of residual resin remain on the composite substrate, thereby creating a modified, bondable surface on the composite substrate. The composite substrate with the modified surface can be bonded to another composite substrate, whereby the textile carrier remains an integrated part of the final bonded structure.
US11192347B2
The invention discloses a high performance plastic magnetic material, comprising a low surface energy layer, a magnetic layer and a printable layer, wherein the magnetic layer and the printable layer are arranged successively on a first side of the low surface energy layer; the low surface energy layer is an organic silicon pressure sensitive adhesive layer. The invention further discloses a preparation method, comprising the following steps: pretreating a magnetic powder with a coupling agent; mixing the pretreated magnetic powder with matrix components and auxiliaries to gain a mixture; extrusion compositing the gained mixture with a printable layer to gain composite paper having the printable layer and a magnetic layer; and applying a low surface energy layer on a side of the magnetic layer, opposite the printable layer. As no UV layer and no adhesive residue, the material of the invention is environmentally friendly and highly reliable.
US11192344B2
A composite article (30), comprising at least one fibrous layer (12), and at least one thermoplastic epoxy web layer (14) located in direct planar contact with the at least one fibrous layer (12), the at least one thermoplastic epoxy web layer (14) being adapted to substantially phase separate during a molding and/or curing process.
US11192343B2
An irreversibly self-destructive security packaging water soluble film and method for manufacturing the same. The water soluble packaging film is embedded with various security elements, which will get irreversibly destroyed upon final usage as the whole package along with its contents will dissolve in water. This process of self-destruction will control the duplication of the package or alteration of the product inside the package.
US11192341B2
A method for producing a composite glass pane, includes placing a first glass pane having a thickness less than or equal to 1 mm on a support mould, wherein the first glass pane is curved into a shape determined by the support mould; placing at least one thermoplastic film on the first glass pane; placing a curved second glass pane having a thickness greater than or equal to 1.5 mm on the thermoplastic film; and joining the first glass pane to the second glass pane via the thermoplastic film to form a composite glass pane by lamination.
US11192332B2
A backing layer (10) of a multilayer thermal insulation panel (100) for building constructions includes a glass fiber reinforcement layer (1) having a first surface (F1) and an opposite second surface (F2). The reinforcement layer is interposed between a first coating layer (2) attached to the first surface (F1) of the reinforcement layer and a second coating layer (3) attached to the second surface (F2) of the reinforcement layer (1). The first (2) and second (3) coating layers are manufactured by a mixture including an organic binder.
US11192324B2
A composite material for vehicle interior, including: a skin material disposed at one outermost side of the composite material, and having a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposite the first principal surface; and a backing material disposed at the other outermost side of the composite material, so as to face the second principal surface of the skin material. The skin material is formed of a fiber structure body, and has a plurality of first fold lines of folding with the first principal surface of the skin material outward, and a plurality of second fold lines of folding with the first principal surface inward. The first fold lines adjacent to each other are parallel to each other or form an acute angle θ1 of 10° or less, the second fold lines adjacent to each other are parallel to each other or form an acute angle θ2 of 10° or less, and the first fold line and the second fold line adjacent to each other are parallel to each other or form an acute angle θ12 of 10° or less.
US11192316B2
A hierarchical sandwich core and a method of making it where a macroscopic honeycomb with a first macroscopic cell with first sandwich cell walls is connected to neighbouring macroscopic cells with neighbouring sandwich cell walls. The first and neighbouring sandwich cell walls are made of a sandwich material having a width, a mesoscopic core, and a first skin layer on a first major surface and a second skin layer on a second major surface of the sandwich material, both skin layers being attached to the mesoscopic core forming each sandwich cell wall of the macroscopic honeycomb. The first and the neighbouring cell walls have a height determined by the width of the sandwich material, both skin layers of the first sandwich cell wall being connected to both skin layers of at least one neighbouring cell wall along the height of the first cell wall.
US11192314B2
A hybrid preform comprises a bundle of unidirectionally aligned fibers, and at least one partial cut that extends part of the way, but not all of the way, through a transverse cross section of the bundle of fibers at least one location along the length of the bundle.
US11192313B2
A method for producing a pultruded article includes: a step in which an activation sheet having a sliding surface capable of sliding with the inner surface of a mold is arranged on the surface of an intermediate molded article comprising reinforcing fibers that are impregnated with a thermosetting resin and the intermediate molded article and the activation sheet are introduced into a mold together; and a step in which a pultruded article generated by heating and hardening the intermediate molded article in the mold is pultruded together with the activation sheet from the mold.
US11192308B2
A filament feed monitor and method of remediating a printing error in a 3D printer is provided. The method may include detecting motion of a trailing gear by an optical sensor. The printing error may be detected by a controller connected to the optical sensor in response to a determination that rotational motion of a filament feed roller has exceeded a predetermined threshold, which may be determined based on the detected motion of the trailing gear. A command may be generated and executed by the controller to remediate the printing error.
US11192297B2
A composite filament for use in additive manufacturing such as fused filament fabrication is described along with methods of its construction and use. The composite filament includes a single continuous filament (e.g., a continuous carbon roving) and a polymer (e.g., a high glass transition polymer) in intimate contact. The composite filament is formed through immersion of the continuous filament in a solution of the polymer. The composite filament can be combined with an additional formation material in an additive manufacturing process.
US11192294B2
A three-dimensional printing system for solidifying a photocurable resin in a layer-by-layer manner at a build plane includes a scan module, a transparent plate, a sensor, and a controller. The scan module is configured to scan the light beam along two axes to address the build plane. The transparent plate is positioned in the optical path between the scan module and the build plane. The transparent plate has at least one reflective feature in the optical path. The sensor is mounted above the glass plate and is positioned to receive light reflected from the reflective feature. The controller is configured to operate the scan module to scan the light beam across the build plane, receive a signal from the sensor when the light beam impinges upon the reflective feature, and analyze the signal to verify a proper alignment of the light beam to the build plane.
US11192291B2
A core metal includes, on an outer circumference thereof, a plurality of attachment surfaces to which a plurality of strings are attached, and a plurality of guided portions are formed along an axial direction of the core metal and disposed between two of the attachment surfaces. A string supply device includes a string supply unit that supplies the strings to the outer circumference of the core metal, an attaching unit that arranges and attaches the strings on the attachment surfaces of the core metal in a circumferential direction of the core metal, and a plurality of guiding units, in contact with the guided portions of the core metal, which guides the core metal.
US11192290B2
A thermoforming machine and a thermoforming method are provided, in particular for producing capsules for obtaining beverages. The capsules (C) are produced from a film (F) of thermoformable material by thermoforming one or more predefined portions (X) of the film. The one or more predefined portions (X) of the film of thermoformable material are pre-heated, i.e. they are heated before being subjected to thermoforming so as to minimize the probability that the film of thermoformable material tears or breaks during thermoforming or after thermoforming.
US11192289B2
A method for manufacturing a fuel tank is described herein. The method includes subsequent to molding of a housing of a fuel tank, positioning a strut inside the housing. The method additionally includes snap-fitting a flexible projection of the strut with a corresponding flange section in a first wall of the housing, the flange section surrounding an opening in the first wall of the housing and the flexible projection including a surface overlapping an interior surface of the flange section subsequent to the snap-fitting.
US11192278B2
The disclosed subject matter concerns earth based mixtures, methods of preparing mixtures, and a process of forming articles of manufacture, as well as a process of manufacturing articles in molds configured for compression molding of earth based mixtures in accordance with the disclosed subject matter, including mixtures containing one or more of, e.g., sand, silt, clay, minerals, or any combination thereof.
US11192277B2
The present invention relates to a 3D printer wherein a printing material is placed and hardened on a transparent film and a 3D printing method using the same. The 3D printer of the present invention is composed of the film supplying part to provide a transparent film; the material supplying part to provide a printing material on the transparent film; the photo-hardening part to solidify the printing material provided onto the transparent film as a designed form; and the film collecting part to collect the transparent film and the remaining printing material after the printing material has been hardened by the photo-hardening part.
US11192274B2
An efficient method and apparatus for making a compressed structural fiberboard from agricultural fibrous matter. The method and apparatus provides a conveyor having variable drives for carrying the agricultural fibrous matter; a hopper having variable drives for conditioning and delivering the agricultural fibrous matter to an extruder; the extruder having a cyclic ram with linear actuators and a floating plate to drive the cyclic ram between an extended position, wherein the agricultural fibrous matter is compacted into the compressed structural fiberboard, and a retracted position, wherein the agricultural fibrous matter is delivered to the extruder; synthetic oil heaters for heating the compressed structural fiberboard; a heat sink track cooler for cooling the compressed structural fiberboard; and a water jet cutting system for cutting the compressed structural fiberboard into individual boards.
US11192265B2
A robotic arm control system including a robotic arm configured to deploy one or more tools in an operating space, one or more sensors, and a control system operably configured to: scan the operating space with the one or more sensors, identify a surface of the operating space based at least in part upon information sensed by the one or more sensors, establish a virtual barrier offset from the surface, and limit movement of the robotic arm based at least in part upon the virtual barrier.
US11192254B2
The present disclosure is a robot system including a robot that performs work on a workpiece; a controller that controls the robot; a first camera that captures an image of the workpiece while being moved relative to the workpiece by means of the operation of the robot; and a second camera that is capable of acquiring, in synchronization with image capturing by the first camera, an image that represents the relative positional relationship between the first camera and the workpiece. The controller includes a correcting unit that corrects, on the basis of the image acquired by the second camera, the image-capturing timing of the first camera so that an image is captured at a position at which the workpiece is appropriately captured in the field of view of the first camera.
US11192247B2
A robot controller controls an arc motion of a robot. The robot controller includes an interpolation point setting unit that sets an interpolation point between movement points in an operation program. The robot controller includes a movement-point angle calculation unit that calculates an angle relating to a reference direction for determining the orientation of the robot, and an interpolation-point angle calculation unit that calculates an angle relating to the reference direction at an interpolation point by interpolating angles relating to the reference direction at the movement points. The reference direction is a direction independent from the positions of the movement points and is set in an operation program in a predetermined coordinate system.
US11192245B2
Systems and methods are provided for controlling robots and their end effectors. One embodiment is a method for controlling a robot. The method includes: maneuvering a robot via a robot controller that is dedicated to operating the robot, thereby altering a position of an end effector mounted to the robot, communicating from the robot controller to an end effector controller that is disposed at the end effector and is dedicated to operating the end effector, determining a position of the end effector via the end effector controller, and operating the end effector via the end effector controller based on the position of the end effector.
US11192244B2
A robot system includes a robot, a sensor, and a processor. The sensor is configured to detect an external force acting on the robot. The processor is configured to move the robot in a forward direction such that a representative point of the robot moves along a motion track in the forward direction; move the robot in a reverse direction such that the representative point moves along the motion track in the reverse direction opposite to the forward direction when the external force satisfies a first condition which includes a condition that the external force is larger than a first threshold force; and move the robot to reduce the external force when the external force satisfies a second condition which includes a condition that the external force is larger than a second threshold force even after the robot has been moved in the reverse direction.
US11192243B2
A method and system for determining geometric properties of a manipulator (2). The manipulator (2) is controlled to perform constrained motions exhibiting force interaction with the environment, or between different links of the manipulator (2), such that a kinematic chain is formed mechanically. The chain may include peripherals and external axes of motion. A constraining device, enables motions that facilitate the determination of geometric properties. A unified model of joint and link compliances facilitates determination of stiffness parameters. The force interaction is controlled with awareness of friction such that non-geometric properties are possible to identify, thereby enabling separation of non-geometric effects from the geometric ones, which improves accuracy.
US11192237B2
Exosuit systems and methods according to various embodiments are described herein. The exosuit system can be a suit that is worn by a wearer on the outside of his or her body. It may be worn under the wearer's normal clothing, over their clothing, between layers of clothing, or may be the wearer's primary clothing itself. The exosuit may be assistive, as it physically assists the wearer in performing particular activities, or can provide other functionality such as communication to the wearer through physical expressions to the body, engagement of the environment, or capturing of information from the wearer.
US11192221B2
Various embodiments of a curved-tip screwdriver bit are presented. The bit may include a shank, a body connected with the shank, and a tip disposed at an end of the body. The tip may include curved blades that project from the end of the shaft. A first curved blade may have a first arc shaped cross section. A second curved blade may have a second arc shaped cross section. A radius of the second arc-shaped cross section may be greater than a radius of the first arc-shaped cross section of the first curved blade.
